SHAZAM food expenditure data set

A household food expenditure data set


This cross-section data set contains average weekly expenditure on food and average weekly income in dollars for households that have three family members. 40 households have been randomly selected from a larger sample. The data set is from William E. Griffiths, R. Carter Hill and George G. Judge, Learning and Practicing Econometrics 1993, Wiley [Table 5.2, p. 182].

The variables in the data set are:

  1. Weekly household expenditure on food
  2. Weekly household income

The data set (filename: GHJ.txt) follows.


        9.46       25.83
       10.56       34.31
       14.81       42.50
       21.71       46.75
       22.79       48.29
       18.19       48.77
       22.00       49.65
       18.12       51.94
       23.13       54.33
       19.00       54.87
       19.46       56.46
       17.83       58.83
       32.81       59.13
       22.13       60.73
       23.46       61.12
       16.81       63.10
       21.35       65.96
       14.87       66.40
       33.00       70.42
       25.19       70.48
       17.77       71.98
       22.44       72.00
       22.87       72.23
       26.52       72.23
       21.00       73.44
       37.52       74.25
       21.69       74.77
       27.40       76.33
       30.69       81.02
       19.56       81.85
       30.58       82.56
       41.12       83.33
       15.38       83.40
       17.87       91.81
       25.54       91.81
       39.00       92.96
       20.44       95.17
       30.10      101.40
       20.90      114.13
       48.71      115.46

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