Consumption of households: average monthly expenditure for individual expenditure items — general average and actual buyers

The dataset contains data on the average monthly expenditure of Milanese households on food and non-food consumption. Within these two types the goods are grouped by category of expenditure (e.g. bread and cereals, meat) and within each category by subcategories (e.g. meat category — white meat subcategory). In addition to the average monthly expenditure calculated on all households, there are two other items useful to complete the picture: the average calculated against actual buyers indicating the average monthly expenditure for each category and subcategory of expenditure, calculated taking into account only households that actually buy goods in that category (e.g. not all households buy fish, therefore the average is lower if calculated on all households in the sample, but rises if calculated only on households consuming it). The other item is the frequency of purchase indicating the percentage of households consuming goods belonging to each specific subcategory. The data are for the period 2007-2013 and are expressed in euro. The source of the data is the survey “Consu-Mi, Observatory on consumption of households resident in the Municipality of Milan — 2013 edition” conducted by the Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan.Note: a subsequent edition of the investigation is not planned.