The regional pattern of the demand for meat in the United Kingdom

Abstract

This paper is concerned with an analysis of the differences in demand for meat, especially lamb and beef, between different regions in the United Kingdom. It represents an extension of earlier published work in which presented an analysis of the overall retail demand for meat in that country. It was shown that the quarterly retail demand for five types of meat (lamb and mutton, beef and veal, pork, poultry and non carcase meat) was related to prices of each type of meat and consumer incomes, and also that there were significant seasonal changes in demand which were different in their pattern for each type of meat.