@article{Smallwood:154828,
      recid = {154828},
      author = {Smallwood, David M. and Blisard, Noel and Blaylock, James  R. and Lutz, Steven M.},
      title = {Food Spending in American Households, 1980-92},
      number = {1487-2016-122759},
      series = {SB 888},
      pages = {88},
      abstract = {Average annual food expenditures in urban households rose  59 percent from $985 per person in 1980 to $1,567 in 1992  While per person income rose 94 percent from $6,916 to  $13,398. As a result, the percent of household income spent  on food
declined from 14.2 to 11.7 percent Annual spending  per person for food consumed at home rose 55 percent from  $667 to $1,036 While food consumed away from home lose 69  percent from $318 to $536. During this period, food prices  rose 58.9 percent for total food, 54.8 percent for food at  home, and 68.7 percent for food away from home. This  bulletin presents information on trends in household food  expenditures for major food groups by selected demographic  factors for 1980-92. Information is also presented on  household income and food price trends. The data are from  the 1980-92
Consumer Expenditure Diruy Surveys prepared by  the Bureau' of Labor Statistics, U.S.
Department of Labor.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/154828},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.154828},
}