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Cross‐sectional analysis of food demand in the North Central, Nigeria

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of socio‐economic variables on households' food demand. This paper derived the indirect utility function in terms of expenditure and price through the use of nonlinear demand quadratic almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS) model to estimate price, expenditure and elasticities of food items consumed in the North‐Central, Nigeria, and the impact of the socio‐economic variables on households' food demand. Design/methodology/approach The primary data used came from random selection of 396 households between 2006 and 2007 through a stratified…