Evaluation of the 2006–2008 Food Crisis on Household Welfare: The Case of the Sultanate of Oman

Table 1

Estimated expenditure elasticities for the whole sample and by income groups.

Commodity food groups	Whole sample; 𝑁=6789	1st quartile; 𝑁=1701	2nd quartile; 𝑁=1697	3rd quartile; 𝑁=1705	4th quartile; 𝑁=1717
Cereals	0.883	1.100	1.024	0.954	0.797
Meat	1.438	1.160	0.923	1.200	1.552
Fish	0.920	1.129	1.016	0.876	0.814
Dairy	0.859	1.150	1.324	1.342	0.847
Oil and fat	0.973	1.060	1.118	1.133	0.922
Fruits and veg.	0.955	1.870	1.070	0.980	0.790
Sugar	1.176	1.00	0.980	0.927	1.217
Beverage	0.691	0.840	0.932	0.908	0.876
Others	0.933	0.772	0.735	0.735	0.760

Source: own derivation from Engel share equations.