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. 2019 Oct 11;14(10):e0223196. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223196

Table 7. Tax impact on purchased quantities, heavy purchasers.

French and Italian HSPa data French home scan data and Italian HESb data
Soft drinks -0.132 -0.599**
(0.123) (0.109)
 Regular soft drinks -0.098
(0.107)
 Diet soft drinks -0.058
(0.055)
Fruit Juices 0.165*** -0.183*
(0.056) (0.059)
 Non-pure fruit juices 0.103**
(0.046)
 Pure fruit juices 0.074***
(0.029)
Water -0.768 -1.148
(0.540) (0.594)

(a) Home Scan Panel (HSP)

(b) Italian Household Expenditure Survey (HES)

Dependent variables are per capita purchased quantities.

Standard errors (in brackets) are clustered by household when using HSP data.

* p<0.1;

** p<0.05;

*** p<0.01.

Heavy purchasers are defined for each drink group as households whose per capita purchases laid within the top 25% in 2011.