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Food spending in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a significant increase in the unemployment rate and a decline in consumer income. At the same time, the public health responses to the pandemic, such as lockdowns and business closures, disrupted the food supply chain. These pandemic-driven changes could lead to a...

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Autores principales: Dhakal, Chandra, Acharya, Binod, Wang, Shaonan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.912922
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description The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a significant increase in the unemployment rate and a decline in consumer income. At the same time, the public health responses to the pandemic, such as lockdowns and business closures, disrupted the food supply chain. These pandemic-driven changes could lead to a shift in food spending behaviors and potentially exacerbate the food insecurity situation. Leveraging the nationally representative dataset from the 2017–2020 consumer expenditure surveys, we employ a two-part model to assess the changes in weekly household spending on total food, food-at-home (FAH), and food-away-from-home (FAFH) between the pre-pandemic and pandemic period in the United States. Our finding shows a predicted marginal decline in FAFH expenditure by 33.7% but an increase in FAH spending by 6.9% during the pandemic. The increase in FAH spending could not fully offset the decrease in FAFH spending, leading to a decline in total food spending by 12.6%. The results could provide a basis for future studies on food insecurity, nutrient intake, and healthy consumption during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-93819232022-08-18 Food spending in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic Dhakal, Chandra Acharya, Binod Wang, Shaonan Front Public Health Public Health The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a significant increase in the unemployment rate and a decline in consumer income. At the same time, the public health responses to the pandemic, such as lockdowns and business closures, disrupted the food supply chain. These pandemic-driven changes could lead to a shift in food spending behaviors and potentially exacerbate the food insecurity situation. Leveraging the nationally representative dataset from the 2017–2020 consumer expenditure surveys, we employ a two-part model to assess the changes in weekly household spending on total food, food-at-home (FAH), and food-away-from-home (FAFH) between the pre-pandemic and pandemic period in the United States. Our finding shows a predicted marginal decline in FAFH expenditure by 33.7% but an increase in FAH spending by 6.9% during the pandemic. The increase in FAH spending could not fully offset the decrease in FAFH spending, leading to a decline in total food spending by 12.6%. The results could provide a basis for future studies on food insecurity, nutrient intake, and healthy consumption during the pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9381923/ /pubmed/35991077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.912922 Text en Copyright © 2022 Dhakal, Acharya and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_full_unstemmed Food spending in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Food spending in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort food spending in the united states during the first year of the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.912922
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