Changes in Consumer Food Preferences in EU Countries from 2001-2013

Grzegorz Koszela1, Luiza Ochnio2
1, 2 Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
Koszela, Grzegorz; ORCID: 0000-0003-4175-4450 (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie)
Ochnio, Luiza; ORCID: 0000-0001-8875-7945 (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie)
Changes in Consumer Food Preferences in EU Countries from 2001-2013
Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW w Warszawie - Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, 2017, vol.17(32), nr 4, s. 161-171

Słowa kluczowe

dissimilarity of structures synthetic rate ranking multidimensional data analysis grade data analysis consumer food preferences EU

Streszczenie

This paper attempts to rank EU countries according to changes in consumer food preferences between 2001 and 2013. The size of these changes was determined using a synthetic rate created for this purpose. This rate was intended to accommodate changes in consumption levels in 9 product groups per capita. It turns out that we may use the greatest possible measure of the structure’s dissimilarity as an analogy to the Gini coefficient, to express this rate. Using the “ar” measure to compare structures of food consumption in two separate three-year time periods for each country, scientists may rank and group the countries according to the value of changes in consumer food preferences.