Research Article
Demand for Meat in the Rural and Urban Areas of Kenya: A Focus on the Indigenous Chicken
Table 5
Price, expenditure elasticities, and marginal shares.
| Expenditure share category | IC | EC | BF | MN | GM | OT |
| | Marshallian/uncompensated elasticities |
| Indigenous chicken (IC) | −0.7705 | −0.0536 | 0.0227 | −0.0043 | −0.1398 | 0.0918 | Exotic chicken (EC) | −2.0073 | −0.1089 | −0.6479 | −0.3577 | −2.0288 | 3.6486 | Beef (BF) | 0.1202 | −0.0967 | −0.6630 | 0.0864 | −0.2096 | −0.0829 | Mutton (MN) | 0.3217 | −0.2197 | 0.4275 | −0.6030 | 0.0088 | −0.1900 | Goat meat (GM) | −1.7754 | −0.5810 | −0.4675 | −0.0471 | −0.6605 | 1.7699 | Other meats (OT) | 0.2341 | 2.0011 | −0.5165 | −0.2338 | 3.3963 | · |
| | Hicksian/compensated elasticities |
| Indigenous chicken (IC) | −0.1876 | −0.0337 | 0.1383 | 0.0244 | −0.0692 | 0.1277 | Exotic chicken (EC) | −0.9817 | −0.0738 | −0.4446 | −0.3072 | −1.9048 | 3.7119 | Beef (BF) | 0.6976 | −0.0769 | −0.5485 | 0.1148 | −0.1397 | −0.0473 | Mutton (MN) | 0.4957 | −0.2137 | 0.4620 | −0.5945 | 0.0299 | −0.1793 | Goat meat (GM) | −0.5722 | −0.5398 | −0.2290 | 0.0122 | −0.5150 | 1.8440 | Other meats (OT) | 2.0721 | 2.0641 | −0.1521 | −0.1433 | 3.6187 | · |
| | Expenditure elasticities |
| | 0.8537 | 1.5020 | 0.8455 | 0.2547 | 1.7619 | 2.6917 |
| | Marginal shares |
| | 0.5829 | 0.0352 | 0.1145 | 0.0086 | 0.1456 | 0.1133 |
| | Income elasticities |
| | 0.6505 | 1.1446 | 0.6443 | 0.1941 | 1.3427 | 2.0512 |
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