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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Food Policy. 2017 Aug 8;71:86–100. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.08.001

Table 2.

Expenditure statistics on EPF survey: 10,462 households

Expenditure and purchases (g. or ml.)

Item median
expenditure
share
Median quantity
purchased per
capita (all
households)
Households with
expenditure > 0
(%)
Median quantity
purchased per
capita (households
with exp. >0)
Sweets and desserts 0.15 75 92.5% 105.1
Salty snacks and chips 0.03 3 33.8% 5.7
Meat products and fats 0.33 144 97.6% 175.1
F+V and seafood 0.19 257 95.1% 321.4
Cereal and cereal products 0.21 270 99.1% 310.6
SSB, ready to drink 0.10 164 85.2% 228.1
SSB, concentrate 0.02 147 35.4% 219.4
Water, coffee and tea 0.03 273 49.1% 555.6
Milk 0.06 60 59.5% 98.2

Unit values per kilogram or liter (2011 CLP, 500 CLP = 1 USD)

Item mean median 95% conf. Interval

Sweets and desserts 4274.0 3,627.5 4220.4 4327.6
Salty snacks and chips 8771.9 8,102.6 8716.0 8827.7
Meat products and fats 3487.9 3,324.7 3467.9 3507.9
F+V and seafood 1285.6 1,116.6 1272.7 1298.6
Cereal and cereal products 1016.6 944.6 1009.5 1023.7
SSB, ready to drink 791.3 690.4 782.4 800.1
SSB, concentrate 142.7 141.3 142.3 143.0
Water, coffee and tea 425.7 235.2 413.9 437.5
Milk 752.6 709.8 747.7 757.5

Note: F+V: fruits and vegetables, CLP: Chilean peso.