Pengeluaran Rumah Tangga untuk Konsumsi Bahan Pangan dan Kebutuhan Gizi Keluarga

The study entitled "Household expenditure for Food and Nutrition Consumption" was aimed to determine the socioeconomic factors that affect the allocation of household expenditure on food and nutrition as well as the effect of household income on that allocation.

Descriptive analysis and comparative study were applied in the study while purposive sampling method was used in determining the regions. There were two regions chosen in this study to represent the sub-urban/producer area (Kabupaten Bantul) and urban/consumer area (Kotamadya Yogyakarta). The respondents were chosen by using a simple random sampling for 60 respondents in Kabupaten Bantul and 90 respondents in Kotamadya Yogyakarta.

The Hedonic Price Model was applied in analysis as a proxy of intrinsic price of the quality characteristic of foods. The price was used in computing the household expenditure applied in consumption model with the socioeconomic factors as the determinant.

The results show that the household income is the main determinant of the allocation of household expenditure for food and nutrition consumption. This is identified from the increase in income will always increase the food consumption, especally for level of education of the Head of household, stratum of income, regional characteristics. Consumption of Carbohydrate. Meanwhile, the consumption of protein is determined by

Consumption of vitamin and mineral from fruits are determined by income level, level of education, and kind of job. However, there is also determined in this study that prepared food (makanan jadi) become more favourable for the medium and higher stratum of income society and very busy people.

Those realities indicate that the development on food and nutrition program should consider about income level and level of education. This means that for the medium and higher stratum of income society the program would be succesfully implemented through the extension service to increase the awareness of the society on the importance of food and nutrition as a crucial part in human development program.

Meanwhile for the low stratum of income society, the awareness on the importance of food and nutrition will raise if the income increase and reach the minimum level of food sufficiency. This indicates that the government program on minimum wages will indirectly increase the household consumption of food and nutrition.

On the other hand, the government through the Department of Health suggested to give more attention to the quality of prepared food including junk-food since those kind of food become more favourable in Yogyakarta.