[sustran] Re: Transportation Expenditure

[Wagner Armin GTZ 4413]

Dear all,

Please note for Europe-27 the results of the EUROSTAT-Household Budget Survey: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/PGP_PRD_CAT_PREREL/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2008/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2008_MONTH_06/3-19062008-EN-AP.PDF 

(main page: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,30070682,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL) 

Unfortunately, data are as of 2005 only. However, it shows a wide varity in relative expenditures for food, transport and other categories:

Before coming to conlsuions, from my pespective, the following questions arise:
- Relationship expenditures for housing vs. transport on individual household level. Living in dense cities can mean offsetting higher rents by less need for travel.
- Total income: It might not be a problem in parts of Europe - but: reported incomes in household surveys may differ from real incomes, in particular if non-cash transfers are included. There are surveys where transport costs were almost as high as the reported income levels, as other expenditures where met through other typs of transfers
- Social implications: see table "Household consumption expenditure" in EUROSTAT-paper - in varies substantially across quintiles and it seems difficult to draw conclusions based on the "average household". 

Other publications are (if I remember correctly, Todd Litman shared these once):
A HEAVY LOAD: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families
http://www.nhc.org/pdf/pub_heavy_load_10_06.pdf  Family Spending - A report on the Expenditure and Food Survey
Comprehensive overview of all aspects of household expenditure and income for the calendar year 2006 derived from the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS) of around 7,000 households in the UK.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=361 

Best regards,
Armin


Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards,
 
Armin Wagner
 
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Subject: [sustran] Transportation Expenditure

>
> Dear all,



Taking the discussion little bit away into the "Transportation Expenditure"
and "fuel costs" - many would be surprised to know
that


   1. An Average American Consumer pays more for Transportation and less for
   Food !! ( "means" more important than "ends" ??)
   2. Singapore is showing reduction in Family Transportation Expenditure (
   its 2003 values are less than 1993 values ??)

we in CAI Asia are looking in detail in these aspects and hopefully 2008
survey in Singapore would show more results. Insights and available research
and surveys would be helpful :-)

Regards
Sudhir





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