This works out to around $2.07 worth of food per person, per meal. As a further point of comparison, Figure 6 also shows measures of equivalised household disposable income taken from our From FYE 2009 onwards, broadly comparable trends are observed in the LCF household spending data, and the other measures, with a fall following the 2008 economic downturn, followed by a real terms increase from FYE 2014 onwards. Whilst total spending in the top two regions is almost identical, the spending pattern differs considerably. Any changes described as “significant” within this bulletin are either at the 95% or 90% level. We all need to eat and this budget area can only be cut so much. This was possible due to price decreases of 2.2 per cent. Do you believe this ? While we'd never suggest eliminating your daily cuppa (coffee and tea aren't the budget problem anyway), there is really no room for soda, juice and fancy water in a tight budget. The average spending on restaurants and hotels combined over FYEs 2016, 2017 and 2018 was £48.30As well as spending a greater proportion of catering expenditure on takeaway meals, Northern Ireland households also spent a higher proportion of total expenditure on restaurant and café meals and takeaway meals when compared with England, Wales and Scotland.Within catering services, the second-highest spend in the financial year ending (FYE) 2018 was on alcoholic drinks away from the home. Detailed long term time series are available for Purchases of various household foods are on a clear short term downward trends, including milk and milk products, meat products, potatoes and bread.It is a widely recognised characteristic of self reported diary surveys such as Family Food that survey respondents tend to under report their purchases (and any derived nutrient intakes based on purchased quantities are also likely to be underestimates).
These differences between the income and expenditure distribution are explored in more detail in Figure 4 also shows that relative levels of spending across the income distribution vary more for some categories than others.
When looking at spending by country, we combine three years of financial year data to make the analysis more robust; these averages do not use deflated data.The different countries of the UK have different spending patterns when compared with one another. The average for each year is summed and then the total is divided by three. In comparison with the previous year, household spending on new cars decreased in FYE 2018 (prices adjusted by deflation) by 8% and household spending on second-hand cars decreased by 4%. There is no evidence to say whether levels of under-reporting have changed over time but it is plausible that changes in household shopping and eating patterns may have contributed to increased under-reporting.Users should bear this issue in mind, when considering trends in estimated intakes and the values for individual years. Households spent £80.80 a week on average on transport, £76.10 on housing, fuel and power and £74.60 on recreation and culture accounting for 40% of total average weekly household expenditure (14%, 13% and 13% respectively).Figure 2 is an interactive tree map that enables you to explore average weekly household spending for FYE 2018 in more detail. The table shows the true change in price and how the consumer has responded to this by a combination of buying less, spending more and trading down.For example, for bread there was an increase in expenditure of 1.4 per cent for all households. All spending estimates are rounded to the nearest £0.10 therefore the sum of component items does not therefore necessarily add to the totals shown.This bulletin compares spending over time in two different ways, where figures either are or are not adjusted for inflation. In a general week I spend around £80.