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Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim

Inflation affects the standard of living of most households, especially the lower income group. This paper sheds light on the effect of the current inflation on the urban poor household spending pattern and how they cope with the increasing cost of living. There were 219 respondents in ten areas in...

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Main Authors: Razali, Jelani, Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani, Ibrahim, Khalik
Format: Research Reports
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/77322/1/77322.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.773222023-05-09T04:45:12Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/77322/ Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim Razali, Jelani Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani Ibrahim, Khalik Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling Research Inflation affects the standard of living of most households, especially the lower income group. This paper sheds light on the effect of the current inflation on the urban poor household spending pattern and how they cope with the increasing cost of living. There were 219 respondents in ten areas in Kuching City and Samarahan surveyed in this study. The majority (69.4%) of the poor households were private sector employees and self-employed households. The findings revealed that inflation had seriously affected the consumer’s expenditure on food (68.9%), utility (42.0%), education (35.2%), housing (30.1%), and the least affected was vacation expenses (4.6%). The consumers coped with the rising food prices by buying cheaper products (87.2%), cutting expenditure on other items (82.6%), rationing on food expenditure (72.2%) and replacing certain food with other alternative (53.0%). 2010 Research Reports NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/77322/1/77322.pdf Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim. (2010) [Research Reports] (Submitted)
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topic Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
Research
spellingShingle Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
Research
Razali, Jelani
Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani
Ibrahim, Khalik
Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim
description Inflation affects the standard of living of most households, especially the lower income group. This paper sheds light on the effect of the current inflation on the urban poor household spending pattern and how they cope with the increasing cost of living. There were 219 respondents in ten areas in Kuching City and Samarahan surveyed in this study. The majority (69.4%) of the poor households were private sector employees and self-employed households. The findings revealed that inflation had seriously affected the consumer’s expenditure on food (68.9%), utility (42.0%), education (35.2%), housing (30.1%), and the least affected was vacation expenses (4.6%). The consumers coped with the rising food prices by buying cheaper products (87.2%), cutting expenditure on other items (82.6%), rationing on food expenditure (72.2%) and replacing certain food with other alternative (53.0%).
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author Razali, Jelani
Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani
Ibrahim, Khalik
author_facet Razali, Jelani
Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani
Ibrahim, Khalik
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title Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim
title_short Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim
title_full Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim
title_fullStr Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim
title_full_unstemmed Impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / Jelani Razali, Nurhani Aba Ibrahim and Khalik Ibrahim
title_sort impact of inflation on consumers’ spending pattern / jelani razali, nurhani aba ibrahim and khalik ibrahim
publishDate 2010
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/77322/1/77322.pdf
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