Assessing the effect of food retail subsidies on the price of food in remote Indigenous communities in Canada

Food prices published by the Nunavut Bureau of Statistics were combined with data from the Nutrition North Canada program and Statistics Canada to estimate the percentage of the Nutrition North Subsidy that was being passed on to consumers, using regression analysis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Naylor, Jamie, Deaton, Brady, Ker, Alan
Other Authors: Lipka, Bethany
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: Borealis 2018
Subjects:
Agricultural Sciences
food prices
Nunavut
food security
subsidy
pass-through
Canada
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/KCXTDL
Description
Summary:Food prices published by the Nunavut Bureau of Statistics were combined with data from the Nutrition North Canada program and Statistics Canada to estimate the percentage of the Nutrition North Subsidy that was being passed on to consumers, using regression analysis.

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