This Section of the report gives the results of a multivariate analysis of the food expenditure data in which net family income and all the household characteristics appear simultaneously. Household characteristics are correlated with one another (for example Income Support or Family Credit receipt is more common in some household composition types than in others). This analysis gives a view of the independent effects of income and each of the household characteristics.
Authors
Andrew Chesher
Andrew is the Director of the ESRC Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap) and Professor of Economics and Economic Measurement at UCL.
Valérie Lechene
Valerie, a Research Fellow of the IFS, is a Reader at the University College London, whose research is focused on modelling intra-household behaviour.
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