Vol. 12 No. 3
A statistical investigation on analysis of food consumption pattern in India
Author(s): S. RAY and B. BHATTACHARYYA
Abstract: Diets, change over time and are influenced by factors such as income, prices, individual preferences and beliefs, cultural traditions, as well as geographical, environmental, social and economic factors. Food consumption pattern in India over the past two decades (period of 10 years) due to income induced diet diversification, impact of globalization, increasing urbanization and changing lifestyle of people. Thus per capita income steadily is increasing in real terms as well as at market prices both in urban and rural areas. The present context made an attempt to analyze the per capita consumption pattern for both rural and urban areas as well as to estimate the consumption trend for both the areas. The study of shift in food consumption pattern is also considered in this research. Changing pattern of food consumption is assessed by various linear and non-linear models for all data series. It is observed that Cubic model is best fitted model for wheat, coarse cereals, and pulses consumption data series for rural and urban areas. In case of rice consumption data set Quadratic model is found best fitted model in rural areas. Per capita consumption pattern of rice in both rural and urban household areas has reduced from 80 and 59.83 kg/year to 79.4 and 58.9 kg/year over the period 2010 to 2020. Per capita edible oil consumption has shown a steady upward trend in both rural and urban household areas by registering an increase from 4 to 8 kg/year in rural areas and from 6.6 to 10.2 kg/year in urban areas during 1987 to 2013. A significant increase in per capita milk consumption has taken place during the analysis period, both in rural and urban areas in response to increasing per capita income. From the forecasted value it is clear that food grains consumption pattern are declined over year to year and non-food grains consumption pattern are increased in Indian dietary system.
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