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Food, Beverages, and Tobacco Expenditures: documentation

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Expenditures of Food, Beverages and Tobacco, 1970-88   
Stock #86014B   (Updated 4/91, archived 1/96, archived on ERS website 1/06)
Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
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This data base focuses on total expenditures of food, beverages
(nonalcoholic and alcoholic) and tobacco in current value and US
dollars and on a per capita basis in US dollars for the United
States and 49 foreign countries from 1970 through 1988. 
Expenditures are computed as a percent of disposable personal
income and private final consumption expenditures.  Other data
included are gross domestic product, disposable personal income,
private final consumption expenditures, net savings, exchange
rates, total (food and nonfood) sales of restaurants, cafes, and
hotels, and population.  For a few countries, data are missing
for a few variables for all years or for all the variables for
the past couple of years.
 
Data files are Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet files
with the following naming convention.
 
                         DATA BASE CONTENTS
 
                                     
Australia = Australi.wk1              Malaysia = Malaysia.wk1
Austria = Austria.wk1                 Malta = Malta.wk1      
Bahamas = Bahamas.wk1                 Netherlands = Netherla.wk1 
Belgium = Belgium.wk1                 New Zealand = Newzeald.wk1
Canada = Canada.wk1                   Norway = Norway.wk1    
Colombia = Colombi.wk1                Peru = Peru.wk1    
Cyprus = Cyprus.wk1                   Philippines = Philipp.wk1
Denmark = Denmark.wk1                 Mexico = Mexico.wk1      
Ecuador = Ecuador.wk1                 
Fiji = Fiji.wk1                            
Finland = Finland.wk1                 
France = France.wk1                   Portugal = Portuga.wk1     
Germany = Germany.wk1                 Puerto Rico = Puerto.wk1   
Greece = Greece.wk1                   Sierra Leone = Sierrale.wk1
Honduras = Hondura.wk1                Singapore = Singapor.wk1   
Hong Kong = Hongkng.wk1               South Africa = Southafa.wk1
Iceland = Iceland.wk1                 Spain = Spain.wk1          
India = India.wk1                     Sri Lanka = Srilanka.wk1   
Iran = Iran.wk1                       Sudan = Sudan.wk1          
Ireland = Ireland.wk1                 Sweden = Sweden.wk1        
Israel = Israel.wk1                   Switzerland = Switzerl.wk1 
Italy = Italy.wk1                     Thailand = Thailand.wk1    
Jamaica = Jamaica.wk1                 United Kingdom = UK. wk1   
Japan = Japan.wk1                     United States = USA.wk     
Jordan = Jordan.wk1                   Venezuela = Venezue.wk1    
Korea = Korea.wk1                     Zimbabwe = Zimbabw.wk1     
Luxembourg = Luxembo.wk1 
 

 
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