The expenditure and food survey
The EFS is a continuous survey in which private households throughout the United Kingdom collect information on domestic food consumption and expenditure. By obtaining information simultaneously about the quantities and cost of food purchased by a random selection of households, the survey enables comparisons to be made of dietary and food expenditure patterns and of the average prices paid for food. Additionally, the EFS, for the first time in Northern Ireland, includes data on food consumed outside the home as well as for food consumed at home.
The sample in Northern Ireland consists of 1,200 addresses per year where during the course of two weeks, each of the participating households kept a diary recording details of all items of food, soft drinks, alcoholic drinks and confectionery whether brought into the home for human consumption, or eaten outside the home. All UK data is processed centrally by Defra.
The data is averaged over a three year period, giving a more robust data set than that for individual years.
Expenditure
EFS Household - Expenditure for Northern Ireland
The Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS) is a continuous survey in which private households throughout the United Kingdom collect information on domestic food consumption and expenditure.
Data from the Northern Ireland Expenditure and Food Survey relating to the expenditure on food consumed in the home.
Figures for the years 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05 are given along with the robust 3-year average. Figures show averages per person per week.
The EFS Household Expenditure categories are as follow:
- EFS household - expenditure by household composition
- EFS household - expenditure by income quintile
- EFS household - expenditure by religion
Consumption
- EFS household - consumption by age
- EFS household - consumption by economic activity
- EFS household - consumption by household composition
- EFS household - consumption by income quintile
- EFS household - consumption by religion
Nutrition
- EFS household - nutrition by age
- EFS household - nutrition by economic activity
- EFS household - nutrition by household composition
- EFS household - nutrition by income quintile
- EFS household - nutrition by religion
Consumption and expenditure
- EFS - eating out - consumption and expenditure by age
- EFS - eating out - consumption and expenditure by economic activity
- EFS - eating out - consumption and expenditure by household composition
- EFS - eating out - consumption and expenditure by income quintile
- EFS - eating out - consumption and expenditure by religion