| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 國際經濟所 === 97 === The purpose of this study is to know the influence of the family lifecycle and socio-economic status on the non-alcoholic beverage consumption in Taiwan. Data collected from the Taiwan Household survey of 2006, statistical analysis use OLS and quantile regression to examine the effect of aging on the different levels of the distribution of non-alcoholic beverage consumption. Our empirical results show that household income, number, number over 65-ages and each family lifecycle are the most influential factor that impacts non-alcoholic beverage consumption. The family with children spends more higher than others, especially Secondary stage of family. Non-alcoholic beverage consumption in the minimum and maximum weight groups, we found that consumption of non-alcoholic beverages, most of them low-weight groups for medium and old age stage of the family life cycle, households with lower educational attainment, occupation in most blue-collar class. High-weight group were concentrated in the family life cycle in the study of adult children or children of the family have been life-stage, heads of households have a higher level of education.
The income elasticity of OLS and quantile regression have almost the same estimates, both methods’ estimates between 0 and 1, this implies that non-alcoholic beverage is a normal good, and different levels have nearly consume behavior as changes in income.
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