An Economic Analysis of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: Implications for Overweight and Obesity among Higher- and Lower-Income Consumers



sixty-nine weeks, an error component model as developed by Fuller and Battese (1974) is
considered most appropriate for this study. The general form of this model is:

v

Yqr =Xqrsβ. + μqr    q = 1.2..... n ;    r = 1.2..-. T

s =1

where N is the number of cross-sections. and T is the length of the time series for each cross-
section.

Six cross-sections and 69 observations per cross-section are included in the specified model for
this study. Fourteen equations are specified and estimated using the time series cross-section
regression (TSCSREG) procedure in SAS. The equations and included variables are specified as
follows:

Qikt = f(pikt. pjkt.. pmkt.SDUMkt.TEXPkt.Qikt-1)

Where Qikt is total ounces of sub-category i for store k in week t; i = 1. .... 14; k = 1. .... 6; t = 1.

.... 69; Pikt is a weighted-average price of sub-category i for store k in week t; Pjkts represents
weighted-average prices for competing sub-categories for store k in week t; P
mkt is identical to
P
ikt for lower-income stores 4. 5. and 6. but 0 for all other stores (it is intended to capture price
elasticity differences for higher and lower income stores); SDUM
kt are zero-one dummy
variables intended to capture store differences; TEXP
kt represents total expenditures on fruit and
vegetables for store k in week t (intended as a proxy for consumer income); and Q
ikt-1 is total
ounces of sub-category i purchased in store k during the previous week. Descriptive statistics for
dependent and independent variables are provided in Table 1.

Prices are determined by expressing each fruit or vegetable sale as a ratio of all fruit and
vegetables sales within a given sub-category. Specifically. weighted prices for sub-category i in
each time period is:



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