Determinants of sheep and goat meat consumption in Switzerland

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 1 Characteristics of the sample and descriptive statistics of sheep and goat meat consumption and household expenditure

	*Total Switzerland*	*German-speaking part of Switzerland*	*French-speaking part of Switzerland*	*Italian-speaking part of Switzerland*
Number of households	20940	14637	4497	1806
	Mean in total Switzerland (1% trimmed)	Mean in the German-speaking part of Switzerland (1% trimmed)	Mean in the French-speaking part of Switzerland (1% trimmed)	Mean in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland (1% trimmed)
Sheep and goat meat consumed per household and month (in Swiss Francs)	3.74	3.05	6.48	2.81
Sheep and goat meat consumed per household and month (in kg)	0.12	0.09	0.23	0.11
Household monthly total expenditure in CHF	7811.18	7892.46	7869.05	7035.58
Household monthly expenditure for food in CHF	601.29	588.38	641.66	606.03
Household size in adult equivalents	1.63	1.63	1.63	1.66
Number of children (<=18 years)	0.64	0.63	0.67	0.62
Age of the household reference person	49.03	49.04	48.50	50.29
Highest education of the household reference person*	2.64	2.65	2.65	2.49

*The education level is recorded with a scale from 1 to 3, whereas 1 is compulsory school, 2 is professional education and 3 is higher professional education like a university degree. See SFSO (2011), for details on the data collection and the representativeness of the sample.