L'évolution de la demande viande en quantité et en qualité

Abstract

The development in the demand for meat both in quantity and quality The growth in food consumption with the increase in income is tending to slow down, for the demand to which this consumption corresponds is satisfied at a certain level of income already attained in developed countries. This case of meat consumption which represents more than a third of the expenditure of a family on food. This proportion is still increasing and will reach 38 % in 1975. The adjustment of econometric models linking the evolution of consumption and that of income and prices as they are defined by surveys and the chronological series permitting a classification of meats according to the degree in which they are affected by variations in income or prices, and to establish forecasts meat demand in 1975. The forecast thus obtained expressed in constant currency takes into account the <r quality effect », that is to say the difference observed between the change in quantity consumed and the increase in total quantity (in constant currency). This difference, to a great extent, is due to a change in demand within a single category of meat for the cheapest products, thus increasing the value of the average total price, the prices of each piece remaining constant.