| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 國際經濟所 === 96 === The purpose of this study is to know the influence of the family lifecycle and socio-economic status on the food away from home (FAFH) in Taiwan. Data collected from the Taiwan Household survey of 2002, statistical analysis use quantile regression to examine the effect of aging on the different levels of the distribution of FAFH. Our empirical results show that household income is the most influential factor that impacts FAFH; in various family life cycle, the impact to FAFH is difference, being married with no kids and the family with children spend less than single, especially middle aged married couple''s family; at the regional level, education level, occupation of a household head are also important. And the level of affect increase progressively as we move to the upper quantiles. The income elasticities of OLS estimates is 0.483 and of the quantile estimates are 0.395 to 0.951 except q10 is 2.065 greater 1. This implies that FAFH is a normal good and also a necessity for rich households but luxurious for poorer households.
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