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- Title
TÜRKİYE'DE HANEHALKI GIDA HARCAMALARINI ETKİLEYEN SOSYO-EKONOMİK FAKTÖRLER: KARŞILAŞTIRMALI BİR ANALİZ.
- Authors
SELİM, Sibel; DEMİRKIRAN, Ezgi
- Abstract
People need, among many things, nutrition, shelter, clothing to survive. It is very important how much of household income will be allocated for which expenditure groups. Forecasting of these expenditures will help households plan their expenditures. The first aim of this study is to analyze the factors determining the food expenditure of households in Turkey by using data of Household Budget Surveys of 2007, 2012, 2016 carried out by the Turkish Statistical Institute. The analysis is performed using a semilogarithmic model, and demonstrated the impact of each variable on household food expenditure. The second aim is to contribute to the literature by comparing the household food expenditures forecasting performance of the semi-logarithmic model and the artificial neural networks model. Findings obtained from the semi-logarithmic model reveal that the most important variables determining food expenditure are the age, education level, income, marital status and characteristics of the household head. The artificial neural networks is used as an alternative estimation method due to the potential nonlinearity in the estimated semi-logarithmic model. As a result, the forecasting performance of artificial neural networks model outperforms the semi-logarithmic model.
- Subjects
TURKEY; ARTIFICIAL neural networks; TUERKIYE Istatistik Kurumu; HOUSEHOLD budgets; MARITAL status; HOUSEHOLD surveys; HOUSEHOLD employees
- Publication
Hacettepe University Journal of Economics & Administrative Sciences / Hacettepe Üniversitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2020, Vol 38, Issue 2, p297
- ISSN
1301-8752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17065/huniibf.540422