You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures
Consumption of food away from home is rapidly growing across the developing world. Surprisingly, the majority of household surveys around the world haven not kept up with its pace and still collect limited information on it. The implications for po...
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REGIONAL POVERTY LINES LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY POVERTY FOOD NEEDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POVERTY LINE IMPACT ON POVERTY ECONOMIC GROWTH FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS FOOD CONSUMPTION INCOME POVERTY INDICES POVERTY RATES POVERTY ESTIMATES NATIONAL POVERTY LINE CONSUMPTION DATA DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HOUSING NATIONAL POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE INEQUALITY REDUCTION NON-FOOD ITEMS PER-CAPITA INCOME FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOOD ENERGY MEASURES FOOD ENERGY INTAKE WELFARE INDICATOR REGION POVERTY REDUCTION PREPARED FOODS CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION REGIONAL POVERTY FOOD BASKET DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD POOR HOUSEHOLD POVERTY INDEXES POVERTY GAP GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STANDARD ERRORS NUTRITION NEEDS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD INCOME POVERTY STATUS POOR INDIVIDUALS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS FOOD EXPENDITURES ESCAPE’ POVERTY CALORIE INTAKE WELFARE INDICATORS POVERTY PROFILES CHANGES IN POVERTY HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS CONSUMPTION LEVEL EXPENDITURE DATA POVERTY PROFILE FOOD ITEMS STREET FOODS RELATIVE POVERTY LINE CA DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH HOUSEHOLD LEVEL POVERTY LINES CONSUMPTION FOOD SECURITY UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY POVERTY INDEX RUNNING WATER ACCESS TO FACILITIES REDUCTION IN POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT BASIC NEEDS INDIVIDUAL POVERTY DEVELOPMENT ISSUES MEAN INCOME NON-FOOD NEEDS GEOGRAPHIC REGION CONSUMPTION MEASURE ABSOLUTE POVERTY HOUSEHOLD AGRICULTURE FOOD SHORTAGE RURAL PRICE INFORMATION NUTRITION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET FOOD POVERTY SEVERITY SCHOOL FEEDING POVERTY INDICATORS FOOD_CONSUMPTION POOR POPULATION FOOD BASKETS WELFARE MEASURES FOOD SHARE CALORIE CONTENT FOOD INTAKE REGIONS EXTREME POVERTY CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ACCESS TO SERVICES ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE RURAL AREAS POVERTY BASIC NEEDS METHOD POOR POPULATIONS ABSOLUTE TERMS RESTAURANTS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION MEAL NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE POOR WELFARE MEASURE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL OFFICIAL POVERTY FOODS EXPENDITURE DISTRIBUTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE FOOD ITEM COST OF FOOD DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION POVERTY ANALYSIS INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS |
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REGIONAL POVERTY LINES LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY POVERTY FOOD NEEDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POVERTY LINE IMPACT ON POVERTY ECONOMIC GROWTH FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS FOOD CONSUMPTION INCOME POVERTY INDICES POVERTY RATES POVERTY ESTIMATES NATIONAL POVERTY LINE CONSUMPTION DATA DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HOUSING NATIONAL POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE INEQUALITY REDUCTION NON-FOOD ITEMS PER-CAPITA INCOME FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOOD ENERGY MEASURES FOOD ENERGY INTAKE WELFARE INDICATOR REGION POVERTY REDUCTION PREPARED FOODS CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION REGIONAL POVERTY FOOD BASKET DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD POOR HOUSEHOLD POVERTY INDEXES POVERTY GAP GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STANDARD ERRORS NUTRITION NEEDS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD INCOME POVERTY STATUS POOR INDIVIDUALS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS FOOD EXPENDITURES ESCAPE’ POVERTY CALORIE INTAKE WELFARE INDICATORS POVERTY PROFILES CHANGES IN POVERTY HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS CONSUMPTION LEVEL EXPENDITURE DATA POVERTY PROFILE FOOD ITEMS STREET FOODS RELATIVE POVERTY LINE CA DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH HOUSEHOLD LEVEL POVERTY LINES CONSUMPTION FOOD SECURITY UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY POVERTY INDEX RUNNING WATER ACCESS TO FACILITIES REDUCTION IN POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT BASIC NEEDS INDIVIDUAL POVERTY DEVELOPMENT ISSUES MEAN INCOME NON-FOOD NEEDS GEOGRAPHIC REGION CONSUMPTION MEASURE ABSOLUTE POVERTY HOUSEHOLD AGRICULTURE FOOD SHORTAGE RURAL PRICE INFORMATION NUTRITION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET FOOD POVERTY SEVERITY SCHOOL FEEDING POVERTY INDICATORS FOOD_CONSUMPTION POOR POPULATION FOOD BASKETS WELFARE MEASURES FOOD SHARE CALORIE CONTENT FOOD INTAKE REGIONS EXTREME POVERTY CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ACCESS TO SERVICES ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE RURAL AREAS POVERTY BASIC NEEDS METHOD POOR POPULATIONS ABSOLUTE TERMS RESTAURANTS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION MEAL NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE POOR WELFARE MEASURE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL OFFICIAL POVERTY FOODS EXPENDITURE DISTRIBUTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE FOOD ITEM COST OF FOOD DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION POVERTY ANALYSIS INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS Farfan, Gabriela Genoni, Maria Eugenia Vakis, Renos You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures |
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Consumption of food away from home is
rapidly growing across the developing world. Surprisingly,
the majority of household surveys around the world haven not
kept up with its pace and still collect limited information
on it. The implications for poverty and inequality
measurement are far from clear, and the direction of the
impact cannot be established a priori, since consumption of
food away from home affects both food consumption and the
poverty line. This paper exploits rich data on food away
from home collected as part of the National Household Survey
in Peru, shedding light to the extent to which welfare
measures differ depending on whether they properly account
for food away from home. Peru is a relevant context, with
the average Peruvian household spending 28 percent of their
food budget on food away from home by 2010. The analysis
indicates that failure to account for the consumption of
food away from home has important implications for poverty
and inequality measures as well as the understanding of who
the poor are. First, accounting for food away from home
results in extreme poverty rates that are 18 percent higher
and moderate poverty rates that are 16 percent lower. These
results are also consistent, in fact more pronounced, with
poverty gap and severity measures. Second, consumption
inequality measured by the Gini coefficient decreases by 1.3
points when food away from home is included, a significant
reduction. Finally, inclusion of food away from home results
in a reclassification of households from poor to non-poor
status and vice versa: 20 percent of the poor are different
when the analysis includes consumption of food away from
home. This effect is large enough that a standard poverty
profile analysis results in significant differences between
the poverty classification based on whether food away from
home is included or not. The differences cover many
dimensions, including demographics, education, and labor
market characteristics. Taken together, the results indicate
that a serious rethinking of how to deal with the
consumption of food away from home in measuring well-being
is urgently needed to properly estimate and understand
poverty around the world. |
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Farfan, Gabriela Genoni, Maria Eugenia Vakis, Renos |
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Farfan, Gabriela Genoni, Maria Eugenia Vakis, Renos |
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Farfan, Gabriela |
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You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures |
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You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures |
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You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures |
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You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures |
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You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures |
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you are what (and where) you eat : capturing food away from home in welfare measures |
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okr-10986-219872021-04-23T14:04:06Z You Are What (and Where) You Eat : Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures Farfan, Gabriela Genoni, Maria Eugenia Vakis, Renos REGIONAL POVERTY LINES LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY POVERTY FOOD NEEDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POVERTY LINE IMPACT ON POVERTY ECONOMIC GROWTH FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS FOOD CONSUMPTION INCOME POVERTY INDICES POVERTY RATES POVERTY ESTIMATES NATIONAL POVERTY LINE CONSUMPTION DATA DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HOUSING NATIONAL POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE INEQUALITY REDUCTION NON-FOOD ITEMS PER-CAPITA INCOME FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOOD ENERGY MEASURES FOOD ENERGY INTAKE WELFARE INDICATOR REGION POVERTY REDUCTION PREPARED FOODS CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION REGIONAL POVERTY FOOD BASKET DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD POOR HOUSEHOLD POVERTY INDEXES POVERTY GAP GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STANDARD ERRORS NUTRITION NEEDS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD INCOME POVERTY STATUS POOR INDIVIDUALS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS FOOD EXPENDITURES ESCAPE’ POVERTY CALORIE INTAKE WELFARE INDICATORS POVERTY PROFILES CHANGES IN POVERTY HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS CONSUMPTION LEVEL EXPENDITURE DATA POVERTY PROFILE FOOD ITEMS STREET FOODS RELATIVE POVERTY LINE CA DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH HOUSEHOLD LEVEL POVERTY LINES CONSUMPTION FOOD SECURITY UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY POVERTY INDEX RUNNING WATER ACCESS TO FACILITIES REDUCTION IN POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT BASIC NEEDS INDIVIDUAL POVERTY DEVELOPMENT ISSUES MEAN INCOME NON-FOOD NEEDS GEOGRAPHIC REGION CONSUMPTION MEASURE ABSOLUTE POVERTY HOUSEHOLD AGRICULTURE FOOD SHORTAGE RURAL PRICE INFORMATION NUTRITION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET FOOD POVERTY SEVERITY SCHOOL FEEDING POVERTY INDICATORS FOOD_CONSUMPTION POOR POPULATION FOOD BASKETS WELFARE MEASURES FOOD SHARE CALORIE CONTENT FOOD INTAKE REGIONS EXTREME POVERTY CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ACCESS TO SERVICES ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE RURAL AREAS POVERTY BASIC NEEDS METHOD POOR POPULATIONS ABSOLUTE TERMS RESTAURANTS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION MEAL NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE POOR WELFARE MEASURE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL OFFICIAL POVERTY FOODS EXPENDITURE DISTRIBUTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE FOOD ITEM COST OF FOOD DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION POVERTY ANALYSIS INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS Consumption of food away from home is rapidly growing across the developing world. Surprisingly, the majority of household surveys around the world haven not kept up with its pace and still collect limited information on it. The implications for poverty and inequality measurement are far from clear, and the direction of the impact cannot be established a priori, since consumption of food away from home affects both food consumption and the poverty line. This paper exploits rich data on food away from home collected as part of the National Household Survey in Peru, shedding light to the extent to which welfare measures differ depending on whether they properly account for food away from home. Peru is a relevant context, with the average Peruvian household spending 28 percent of their food budget on food away from home by 2010. The analysis indicates that failure to account for the consumption of food away from home has important implications for poverty and inequality measures as well as the understanding of who the poor are. First, accounting for food away from home results in extreme poverty rates that are 18 percent higher and moderate poverty rates that are 16 percent lower. These results are also consistent, in fact more pronounced, with poverty gap and severity measures. Second, consumption inequality measured by the Gini coefficient decreases by 1.3 points when food away from home is included, a significant reduction. Finally, inclusion of food away from home results in a reclassification of households from poor to non-poor status and vice versa: 20 percent of the poor are different when the analysis includes consumption of food away from home. This effect is large enough that a standard poverty profile analysis results in significant differences between the poverty classification based on whether food away from home is included or not. The differences cover many dimensions, including demographics, education, and labor market characteristics. Taken together, the results indicate that a serious rethinking of how to deal with the consumption of food away from home in measuring well-being is urgently needed to properly estimate and understand poverty around the world. 2015-06-01T22:28:27Z 2015-06-01T22:28:27Z 2015-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/05/24442714/eat-capturing-food-away-home-welfare-measures http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21987 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7257 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Peru |