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U.S. Food Expenditures (Updated 10/97)  Stock #91003
Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
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                         U.S. FOOD EXPENDITURES

These tables contain data on U.S. food expenditures and related series.  
They are prepared in ERS utilizing mehthodology which is described in three
reports:  Developing an Integrated Information System for the Food Sector, 
AER-575; Data for Food Demand Analysis, AER-613; and Major Statistical Series
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumption and Utilization of 
Agricultural Products, AH-671, Vol. 5.  

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The Lotus 1-2-3 (Release 2) worksheet files on this diskette are named
TABLE**.WK1, where ** is the appropriate table number from the report. 
These tables are:

  Table           Title
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    1    Expenditures for food and alcoholic beverages
    2    Expenditures for food at home 
    3    Expenditures for food away from home
    4    Sales of alcoholic beverages
    5    Expenditures for food by source of funds
    6    Food expenditures, by source of funds
    7    Food expenditures by families and individuals paid out
           of personal income
    8    Food expenditures by families and individuals paid out
           of personal money income
    9    Coverage of food expenditures in tables 1, 7, and 8
   10    Adjustments to disposable personal income to obtain
           disposable personal money income
   11    Expenditures for food at retail store prices, including
           home produced food, at current prices and 1988 retail
           store prices
   12    Food service as a share of food expenditures
   13    Relative prices of food at three stages of the system
   14    Food expenditures at constant prices
   15    Per capita food expenditures
   16    Sales for food at home by type of outlet
   17    Sales of food away from home by type of outlet


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