Introduction:

Households consume (or not) the food that their socio-economic conditions allow them (or not).

Objective:

To analyze the products that Colombian households consume based on their socio-economic conditions.

Methodology:

1. Descriptive analysis, and 2. Cluster analysis, Ward link. I worked on the Households Budgets survey (Encuesta Nacional de Presupuesto de los Hogares 2016-2017). The Colombian National Department of Statistics conducted the survey.

Results:

Two large groups of household typologies are evident: those that consume food mainly outside the home and those households that spend their household budget on food to eat at home.

Conclusions:

Results show social stratification in food consumption of Colombian households.