![]() ![]() Household food and non-alcoholic drink purchases formed the largest share at £28.83 per person per week. When inflation is taken into account, the amount spent was 1.2 per cent more than 2018/19 and 2.2 per cent more than 2016/17. In 2019/20 the amount that an average household spent on all food and drink, including alcoholic drinks and food eaten out was £48.01 per person per week. In the context of this chapter, low income households are identified as those within the lowest twenty per cent of households by equivalised income, a measure of household income that accounts for differences in household size and composition. Low income is one of many reasons to be vulnerable in society but this group is used here as a proxy. Using comparisons between low income households and all households it is possible to examine the greater effects food price rises may have on vulnerable groups in society. This section provides estimates of household and eating out expenditure on food in 2019/20, alongside analyses of changes in household shopping behaviour in response to food price inflation in recent years. All households that were not interviewed as a result were treated as non-responders and data were weighted to account for reduced data collection in March 2020 compared with previous years. Final March interviews took place on Monday 16 March 2020. Results presented in this headline release cover the financial year ending (FYE) 2020, that is, April 2019 to March 2020.įollowing government guidance in relation to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a pause in data collection led to interviews being conducted for 13 fewer days in March 2020 than planned. In the detailed datasets we have provided indicative estimates for 2015/16 as well as the previously published 2015 calendar year estimates, for comparison. Generally Family Food exposes long term trends in consumer behaviour and year on year differences are not especially relevant. Comparisons between financial year estimates and previous calendar year ones are valid since both cover a full year of shopping activity. ![]() The latest results cover the financial year 2019/20, in line with the parent survey for Family Food (see the ONS Family Spending report), which switched to financial year reporting for 2015/16 onwards. ![]()
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