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Expenditures For Household Textiles And Textile Home Furnishings: An Engel Curve Analysis

Department of Textiles and Consumer Economics, 2100 Marie Mount Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Annual family expenditures for household textiles and textile home furnishings were analyzed using Tobit regression techniques. This research was based on a subsample of expenditure data from 3,007 households, representing 33 percent of the households interviewed during the 1973 Consumer Expenditure Survey. The results demonstrate that expenditures for both household textiles and textile home furnishings are influenced by total consumption expenditures, family type, and moving expenses. In addition, expenditures for household textiles are re lated to race of the household head, region of residence, and city size, while expenditures for textile home furnishings are affected by housing tenure. The results of this study lend support to existing consumption theory and contribute new information concerning the effects of socioeconomic and demographic vari ables on expenditures for household textiles and textile home furnishings.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, 21-31 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8601500103


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