Research Article

Demand for Meat in the Rural and Urban Areas of Kenya: A Focus on the Indigenous Chicken

Table 5

Price, expenditure elasticities, and marginal shares.

Expenditure share categoryICECBFMNGMOT

Marshallian/uncompensated elasticities

Indigenous chicken (IC)−0.7705−0.05360.0227−0.0043−0.13980.0918
Exotic chicken (EC)−2.0073−0.1089−0.6479−0.3577−2.02883.6486
Beef (BF)0.1202−0.0967−0.66300.0864−0.2096−0.0829
Mutton (MN)0.3217−0.21970.4275−0.60300.0088−0.1900
Goat meat (GM)−1.7754−0.5810−0.4675−0.0471−0.66051.7699
Other meats (OT)0.23412.0011−0.5165−0.23383.3963·

Hicksian/compensated elasticities

Indigenous chicken (IC)−0.1876−0.03370.13830.0244−0.06920.1277
Exotic chicken (EC)−0.9817−0.0738−0.4446−0.3072−1.90483.7119
Beef (BF)0.6976−0.0769−0.54850.1148−0.1397−0.0473
Mutton (MN)0.4957−0.21370.4620−0.59450.0299−0.1793
Goat meat (GM)−0.5722−0.5398−0.22900.0122−0.51501.8440
Other meats (OT)2.07212.0641−0.1521−0.14333.6187·

Expenditure elasticities

0.85371.50200.84550.25471.76192.6917

Marginal shares

0.58290.03520.11450.00860.14560.1133

Income elasticities

0.65051.14460.64430.19411.34272.0512