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Diet Quality and Food Consumption: Price Flexibility Estimates

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Table 2—Price flexibility estimates
Food price of	Own quantity	Selected quantity increase by 1-percent of
Food price of	Own quantity	Beef	Pork	Chicken	Cheese	Milk	Oranges	Tomatoes
	Percent
Beef	-1.156	-1.156	-0.179	-0.160	0.038	0.011	-0.042	-0.016
Pork	-1.142	-0.314	-1.142	-0.185	-0.015	0.072	-0.018	-0.006
Other meats	-1.198	-0.491	-0.286	-0.076	-0.057	-0.163	-0.008	-0.003
Chicken	-1.239	-0.836	-0.550	-1.239	-0.209	0.097	0.025	-0.043
Turkey	-0.594	-0.677	-0.087	-0.393	-0.011	0.038	-0.040	0.048
Fresh and frozen fish	-0.157	-0.440	0.038	0.183	0.147	0.134	-0.089	-0.093
Canned and cured fish	-0.036	0.048	0.010	-0.235	0.111	0.253	-0.097	-0.088
Eggs	-3.689	-0.312	-0.164	-0.251	-0.249	-0.030	0.056	-0.045
Cheese	-0.366	0.347	-0.068	-0.352	-0.366	0.108	0.022	-0.057
Fluid milk	-0.294	0.033	0.085	0.044	0.024	-0.294	-0.002	-0.040
Evaporated and dry milk	-0.095	0.076	0.094	0.026	0.019	-0.255	0.017	-0.059
Wheat flour	-0.313	-0.073	-0.067	0.005	-0.052	-0.142	-0.005	-0.015
Rice	-0.236	-0.051	-0.047	-0.213	0.202	-0.192	0.052	-0.030
Potatoes	-0.711	-0.461	-0.081	0.050	-0.248	-0.743	-0.113	-0.055
Butter	-0.502	-0.107	0.135	0.176	-0.030	-0.744	0.052	0.005
Margarine	-0.130	0.259	0.046	-0.090	0.149	-0.140	-0.029	-0.143
Other fats and oils	-0.647	0.260	0.090	0.016	-0.060	0.103	-0.056	-0.078
Apples	-0.413	-0.319	-0.353	-0.047	-0.167	-0.352	0.272	0.134
Oranges	-0.756	-0.843	-0.214	0.096	0.045	-0.035	-0.756	0.008
Bananas	-0.335	-0.033	-0.115	-0.169	0.105	-0.158	0.193	-0.118
Grapes	-0.419	0.093	-0.201	0.128	0.144	-0.339	-0.004	-0.026
Grapefruits	-0.637	0.086	0.137	-0.290	0.072	0.719	0.336	-0.223
Other fresh fruits	-0.083	-0.349	-0.132	0.068	-0.007	0.027	-0.088	-0.040
Lettuce	-0.774	-0.768	-0.242	-0.055	0.393	-0.048	-0.020	0.028
Tomatoes	-0.719	-0.275	-0.061	-0.145	-0.116	-0.377	0.008	-0.719
Celery	-0.687	-0.111	-0.422	-0.519	0.564	0.733	0.077	0.332
Onions	-1.367	-0.953	-0.504	0.068	-0.396	-0.015	0.093	0.392
Carrots	-0.101	0.207	-0.174	0.380	-0.351	0.498	0.106	-0.280
Other fresh vegetables	-0.177	-0.398	-0.120	-0.422	0.253	-0.259	0.008	0.112
Fruit juices	-0.781	-0.067	0.449	-0.176	-0.079	-0.024	-0.199	-0.110
Canned tomatoes	-0.360	0.306	-0.049	0.093	0.018	-0.019	0.020	-0.250
Canned peas	-0.228	0.300	-0.092	0.163	-0.197	-0.031	0.031	-0.080
Canned fruit cocktails	-0.115	-0.062	-0.055	0.026	-0.156	0.381	-0.069	0.065
Peanuts and tree nuts	-0.263	0.213	-0.246	-0.258	0.107	0.052	0.038	0.063
Other processed fruits and vegetables	-0.493	0.238	0.036	0.034	-0.103	0.012	-0.029	0.025
Sugar	-2.480	0.234	0.182	0.026	0.048	-0.149	0.003	-0.019
Sweetners	-0.155	-0.097	0.025	0.133	0.081	-0.105	-0.048	0.130
Coffee and tea	-2.515	0.953	0.126	0.100	0.056	0.266	0.000	-0.093
Frozen dairy products	-0.196	0.165	0.094	0.201	-0.119	-0.136	0.003	0.022
Nonfood	-0.902	0.018	0.015	0.015	0.000	-0.007	0.002	0.004
Note: Each estimate of price flexibility shows the percentage change of a food price in response to a 1-percent increase in a food quantity. Source: USDA, ERS.

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Updated date: July 16, 2008