Income and food Engel curves in Rwanda: a household microdata analysis

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Distribution of rural and urban household expenditures and of food group expenditure shares

	Rural households				Urban households
	Quantiles			Mean	Quantiles			Mean
	q25	q50	q75	Mean	q25	q50	q75	Mean
Total Expenditures
Annual household expenditures. (Frw)	416,284	643,431	1,000,973	833,281	868,274	1,638,287	3,253,654	3,072,913
Annual household expenditures (USD)	623	963	1498	1247	1299	2452	4870	4600
Total food total expenditures (Frw)	140,311	268,706	520,716	286,760	136,542	272,140	1,045,872	768,005
Total non-food expenditure (Frw)	260,085	485,340	1,040,375	546,520	573,323	809,710	3,103,371	2,304,907
Expenditure share of food groups
Cereals	0.36	0.37	0.37	0.36	0.27	0.28	0.24	0.25
Roots and tubers	0.36	0.35	0.32	0.35	0.22	0.21	0.13	0.16
Vegetables	0.13	0.11	0.10	0.12	0.24	0.20	0.18	0.19
Meat products	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.06	0.09	0.07
Beverages	0.03	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.06	0.05
Other food items	0.10	0.10	0.12	0.10	0.20	0.21	0.30	0.27

Household expenditures are reported both in Rwandan Francs (Frw) and US dollars. The exchange rate used is the average exchange rate prevailing during the period (October 2013–October 2014) which is the period the EICV4 survey was undertaken. The exchange rate used is 1$ US = 668 Frw. Source: Authors computations based on Rwandan EICV4, 2013/2014 data