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European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19

This paper provides a European-level analysis using a large-scale survey of 13 countries to examine the power of relevant economic and socio-demographic characteristics to account for changes in food consumption and purchasing behavior during COVID-19. This was done by focusing on a two-level analys...

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Autores principales: Hristov, Hristo, Millard, Jeremy, Pravst, Igor, Janssen, Meike
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/PMC9382126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35990318
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.869091
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Millard, Jeremy
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description This paper provides a European-level analysis using a large-scale survey of 13 countries to examine the power of relevant economic and socio-demographic characteristics to account for changes in food consumption and purchasing behavior during COVID-19. This was done by focusing on a two-level analysis of subject-related predictors highlighted in many existing country-level studies to test the generality of their significance. The Level 1 predictors relate to the individual households participating in the survey consisting of household composition, education, and location, as well as three types of perceived COVID-19 risks of infection, severity, and anxiety. Level 2 relates to the national level, and especially to the financial situation measured by the mean national Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) per capita in PPP, of the countries, in which the households reside. In terms of changes in food consumption, results show that household composition, education, and the household’s perceived risk of both being infected by COVID-19 and being severely infected are significant predictors, although there are some differences between the two levels. Some possible explanations are as follows: putting food into one’s body in the context of the pandemic is related to a household’s financial situation, its composition, especially the presence or absence of children and older people, and its educational attainment, and through all these aforementioned to the perception of COVID-19 infection and its severity risks. Changes in food purchasing react significantly to the same predictors, but additionally, to all other predictors at both household and AIC levels. The household’s location and perceived COVID-19 anxiety risks are thus also significant. Food purchasing depends much more on factors operating both at the individual household level and the AIC level together; for example, households’ access to food is affected by both national and local lockdown restrictions that vary according to the location of the household.
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spelling pubmed-93821262022-08-18 European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19 Hristov, Hristo Millard, Jeremy Pravst, Igor Janssen, Meike Front Nutr Nutrition This paper provides a European-level analysis using a large-scale survey of 13 countries to examine the power of relevant economic and socio-demographic characteristics to account for changes in food consumption and purchasing behavior during COVID-19. This was done by focusing on a two-level analysis of subject-related predictors highlighted in many existing country-level studies to test the generality of their significance. The Level 1 predictors relate to the individual households participating in the survey consisting of household composition, education, and location, as well as three types of perceived COVID-19 risks of infection, severity, and anxiety. Level 2 relates to the national level, and especially to the financial situation measured by the mean national Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) per capita in PPP, of the countries, in which the households reside. In terms of changes in food consumption, results show that household composition, education, and the household’s perceived risk of both being infected by COVID-19 and being severely infected are significant predictors, although there are some differences between the two levels. Some possible explanations are as follows: putting food into one’s body in the context of the pandemic is related to a household’s financial situation, its composition, especially the presence or absence of children and older people, and its educational attainment, and through all these aforementioned to the perception of COVID-19 infection and its severity risks. Changes in food purchasing react significantly to the same predictors, but additionally, to all other predictors at both household and AIC levels. The household’s location and perceived COVID-19 anxiety risks are thus also significant. Food purchasing depends much more on factors operating both at the individual household level and the AIC level together; for example, households’ access to food is affected by both national and local lockdown restrictions that vary according to the location of the household. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9382126/ /pubmed/35990318 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.869091 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hristov, Millard, Pravst and Janssen. 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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Janssen, Meike
European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19
title European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19
title_full European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19
title_fullStr European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19
title_short European household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of COVID-19
title_sort european household spending and socio-economic impacts on food behavior during the first wave of covid-19
topic Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382126/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.869091
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