{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["6(7)"],"submitter":["Davies T"],"funding":["Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship"],"pubmed_abstract":["Fiscal food policies can be used, among others, to minimize the burden of diet-related diseases. To inform the design of such policies in Australia, we used the large grocery-purchasing dataset NielsenIQ Homescan to estimate own-price elasticities and cross-price elasticities for 18 food categories. We found that households were most responsive to changes in price for non-sugar-sweetened beverages and sugar-sweetened beverages: a 10% increase in price was associated with reductions in demand of 15% and 12%, respectively. Additionally, an increase in the price of one category was associated with relatively small changes in the quantity demanded for other categories (that is, 92% of cross-price elasticities had an absolute value <0.2). There were small differences in own-price and cross-price elasticities across socioeconomic quintiles. These price elasticity estimates can be used to model the health and equity impacts of fiscal food policies in Australia."],"journal":["Nature food"],"pagination":["725-732"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12283402"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Food price elasticity estimates in Australia."],"pmcid":["PMC12283402"],"pubmed_authors":["Saxena A","Marklund M","Davies T","Wu JHY"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Food price elasticity estimates in Australia.","description":"Fiscal food policies can be used, among others, to minimize the burden of diet-related diseases. To inform the design of such policies in Australia, we used the large grocery-purchasing dataset NielsenIQ Homescan to estimate own-price elasticities and cross-price elasticities for 18 food categories. We found that households were most responsive to changes in price for non-sugar-sweetened beverages and sugar-sweetened beverages: a 10% increase in price was associated with reductions in demand of 15% and 12%, respectively. Additionally, an increase in the price of one category was associated with relatively small changes in the quantity demanded for other categories (that is, 92% of cross-price elasticities had an absolute value <0.2). There were small differences in own-price and cross-price elasticities across socioeconomic quintiles. These price elasticity estimates can be used to model the health and equity impacts of fiscal food policies in Australia.","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Jul","modification":"2026-03-16T05:18:12.095Z","creation":"2025-08-15T03:06:29.053Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12283402","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40646349"],"doi":["10.1038/s43016-025-01184-1"]}}