@article{Revoredo-Giha:50399,
      recid = {50399},
      author = {Revoredo-Giha, Cesar and Lamprinopoulou-Kranis, Chrysa and  Toma, Luiza and Kupiec-Teahan, Beata and Leat, Philip M.K.  and Cacciolatti, Luca},
      title = {Use of Supermarket Scanner Data to Measure Bread  Consumption and Nutrition Choice in Scotland},
      address = {2009},
      number = {1005-2016-79165},
      series = {Contributed Paper},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {The recent rise in food prices has increased the concern  about the choice of a healthy
food basket, especially in  the context of the discussion around the formulation of  a
National Food Policy for Scotland. This concern has  brought back the interest in the price
and expenditure  demand systems as they provide information about consumers’  food
decisions. The paper focuses on the consumption of  brown and white bread, as they are
the most typical ways of  cereals use in the UK and nutritionists recommend  the
consumption of wholemeal or brown bread in  contraposition to white bread as part of an
appropriate  diet due to its health benefits. This paper aims to answer  whether changes in
bread prices affect the quantity and  composition of the Scottish demand for bread, and
whether  the latter has been the same for different regions and  socioeconomic groups. We
used supermarket scanner data to  estimate three demand systems and compute  their
elasticities. All the models showed statistically  significant own price and expenditure
elasticities. After  simulating an increase in all the bread prices we found  that brown bread
consumption decreases more than white  bread just the opposite to what is recommended
by the  nutritionists.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/50399},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.50399},
}