CONSUMER AND MARKET DEMAND AGRICULTURAL POLICY RESEARCH NETWORK

The project also involved a descriptive analysis of the eggs data for seasonality and an assessment of the mix of egg types consumed by households. [...] Details of the descriptive analysis is presented below along with the description of the price calculation algorithm and the explanation of the Kuhn-Tucker model estimation difficulties. [...] The language variable has been dropped from the analysis as the Mann-Whitney test for two independent samples failed to reject the null hypothesis that both incomplete and complete samples come from the same population. [...] Frequency table for the complete panel Size group 1 2 3 4 5 Total Frequency 72 243 311 208 202 1036 Percentage of total 6.9 23.5 30 20.1 19.5 100 Families with the head under 45 years old have a tendency of leaving the panel before the project ends. [...] Families with the head above 45 years old have a tendency of staying in the panel till the end of the project.