Expenditures of 50+ Households on transport and communications - statistical analysis

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The dynamics and structure of consumption are influenced by demographic changes in the world. One of the most important is the phenomenon of aging society. The study covered households in Poland where the head of the household was at the age of 50 or more, according to the World Health Organization experts, they were people who had entered at least in the first year of presenile. The goal of this article is to analyse and model expenditure on transport and communication of these households. The analyses were carried out on the basis of a set of non-identifiable data of households budget which were bought from Central Statistical Office. Based on the estimated power-exponential model, it was found that the largest positive impact on transport and communications spending was the level of total expenditures per person. The diversification of the preferences of expenditure depending on the number of people in the family, the class of place of residence, socioeconomic group membership and the subjective assessment of the material situation of the households was also found important. In addition, it was found that the expenditures also depends on the characteristics of the household head: they decrease with age and the increase with level of education.