Factors influenceed the monthly per capita consumption expenditure of milk and milk products in Kamrup district of Assam
Author(s):
Sweta Brahma, Biswajit Sen, Udita Chaudhary, Sanjit Maiti, Sangita Ganguly and Ajay Verma
Abstract:
The consumption level of milk and milk products was quite heterogeneous across the households in the Kamrup district of Assam, the Newey-West HAC (Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent) approach with up to four lags and a Pooled Ordinary Least Squares model had been employed to study the effects of various factors. The analysis of MPCE had indicated that cereal; pulses, fruits and vegetables were the significant predictors with positive effect of MPCE on milk and milk products, with a coefficient of 0.486, 1.381 and 0.204 respectively. This suggested that households with higher expenditure on cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables also tend to spend more on milk and milk products, possibly due to complementary dietary habits. Out of number of Socio-economic variables only family size and age were found to be significant. Family size has a significant negative relationship with MPCE on milk and milk products, with a coefficient of -90.022, significant at the 10% level (p<0.1). Age also had a similar significant negative effect on milk and dairy expenditure, with a coefficient of -5.133 (p<0.05), implied that as the average age of household members increased, the per capita expenditure on milk along with its products decreases. The estimated coefficients of the model where income showed a positive influence on milk expenditure (26.36, p< 0.01), indicated that higher income levels were associated with increased spending on milk. Vegetarian households demonstrated a significant preference for milk (82.39, p < 0.05) while exhibited reduced spending on curd (-21.92), which could reflected the dietary choices.
How to cite this article:
Sweta Brahma, Biswajit Sen, Udita Chaudhary, Sanjit Maiti, Sangita Ganguly, Ajay Verma. Factors influenceed the monthly per capita consumption expenditure of milk and milk products in Kamrup district of Assam. Pharma Innovation 2024;13(11):107-113.