Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Appetite. 2018 Aug 1;127:373-385. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.05.130. Epub 2018 May 18.
The interest in better understanding the characteristics and drivers of food consumption by individuals and social groups has grown in recent years, because of various social, environmental, health and economic issues. Most analyses have focused either on the macro or national scale, using food balance/disappearance data, or on the micro scale, focusing on nutrition analysis in limited groups of individual consumers. While various household characteristics are expected to influence food-purchasing habits, the scope and methodology of most previous studies limited their ability to relate to multiple factors, and integrate all into specific consumption patterns. A third, mezzo approach focuses on analyzing household food purchasing, mostly using expenditure surveys. However, focusing on the value spent may result in different quantities of food purchased. This paper aims capturing the amount of food purchased by Israeli households and to analyze the socio-economic factors shaping that consumption. It joins limited number of studies worldwide that focused on the quantity purchased, and the first such analysis of household food purchasing in the State of Israel. It quantified food purchased by more than 30,000 households, and analyzed key shaping factors e.g., income, household size and age. It first, established the need for quantity based analysis. Then, an extensive breakdown of consumed food is presented and the unique diets of different parts of the society were identified. Finally, it examined the consumption of different lifestyles to find that couples lifestyles tend to consume more per capita, and that income has a crucial role in determining the rate of consumption both in terms of quantity and variety purchased. However it highlights that other variables should also be examined in order to assess properly why households consume the way they do. Nevertheless, the findings of this research can be used as the basis for examining the health, social, or environmental implications of the different identified food consumption habits, support long-term research that examines changes over time, and may be the basis for examining the potential benefits of implementing specific policies.
近年来，由于各种社会、环境、健康和经济问题，人们越来越关注个体和社会群体的食物消费特征和驱动因素。大多数分析要么集中在宏观或国家层面，使用食物平衡/消失数据，要么集中在微观层面，关注有限的个体消费者群体的营养分析。虽然各种家庭特征预计会影响食品购买习惯，但大多数先前研究的范围和方法限制了它们将多个因素联系起来并将所有因素整合到特定消费模式的能力。第三种、中观方法侧重于分析家庭食品购买行为，主要使用支出调查。然而，关注花费的价值可能会导致购买的食物数量不同。本文旨在捕捉以色列家庭购买的食物量，并分析塑造这种消费的社会经济因素。它加入了全球为数不多的专注于购买量的研究，也是以色列国内首次对家庭食品购买的此类分析。它量化了 3 万多户家庭购买的食品，并分析了关键的塑造因素，如收入、家庭规模和年龄。它首先确定了基于数量的分析的必要性。然后，提出了对消费食品的广泛细分，并确定了不同社会群体的独特饮食。最后，它检查了不同生活方式的消费，发现夫妻生活方式的人均消费倾向更高，收入在决定购买量和购买品种的消费率方面起着至关重要的作用。然而，它强调还应该检查其他变量，以便正确评估家庭为什么以这种方式消费。尽管如此，本研究的结果可以作为检验不同消费习惯对健康、社会或环境影响的基础，支持考察随时间变化的长期研究，并可能作为检验实施具体政策的潜在益处的基础。
