Trends in food prepared outside the home in some Asian countries

• Author: Nazma Shaheen,Handewi P. Saliem,Le Hoa Nguyen,Sunniva Bloem, Hermanto,David Dawe,Nazmul Hassan,Roehlano Briones,Jikun Huang,Thi Thu Trang Truong,Nuttanan Wichitaksorn,A. Ganesh Kumar
• Published date: 01 May 2019
• Date: 01 May 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/wfp2.12001

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wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/wfp2 World Food Policy. 2019;5:16–23.

DOI: 10.1002/wfp2.12001

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Trends in food prepared outside the home in some

Asian countries

DavidDawe1

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RoehlanoBriones2

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NazmulHassan3

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Hermanto4

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JikunHuang5

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A.Ganesh Kumar6

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Le HoaNguyen7

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Handewi

P.Saliem4

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NazmaShaheen3

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Thi Thu TrangTruong7

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NuttananWichitaksorn8

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SunnivaBloem9

© 2019 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. World Food Policy © 2019 Policy Studies Organization.

1FAO Regional Office for Asia and the

Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand

2Philippine Institute for Development

Studies, Manila, Philippines

3Institute of Nutrition and Food Science,

University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

4Indonesian Center for Agricultural Socio-

Economic and Policy Studies (ICASEPS),

Jakarta, Indonesia

5China Center for Agricultural

Policy,School of Advanced Agricultural

Sciences,Peking University, Beijing, China

6Indira Gandhi Institute of Development

Research, Mumbai, India

7Division of Strategy and Policy

Study,Institute of Policy and Strategy

for Agriculture and Rural Development

(IPSARD), Hanoi, Viet Nam

8Department of Mathematical

Sciences,AUT University and Thailand

Development Research Institute, Bangkok,

Thailand

9Research and Policy - Singhealth Duke-

NUS Global Health Institute, Singapore,

Singapore

Abstract

Urbanization and increasing income per capita in Asian coun-

tries are leading to an increasing opportunity cost of time

and increasing consumer demand for easier food preparation.

One manifestation of this shift in demand is an increase in

eating food prepared outside the home. The objectives of this

paper are (a) to gather and analyze data on trends in expen-

ditures on food prepared away from home and (b) to under-

stand how these trends might be affecting estimates of rice

consumption. The data from national household surveys of

seven countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines,

Thailand, and Vietnam and China) were analyzed. The re-

sults suggest a positive income elasticity of demand in urban

areas and for most countries in East and Southeast Asia, al-

though trends are different in South Asia. Eating out appears

to be more common in China and Southeast Asia than in

South Asia, even after controlling for income. Constructing

estimates of rice eaten outside the home is difficult, and bet-

ter data collection is essential as it becomes more common to

eat food prepared outside the home.

KEYWORDS

eating out, food expenditure, food prepared outside the home, middle‐

income Asian countries, rice consumption