Comparing Two Sources of Retail Meat Price Data

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英文名称：

Comparing Two Sources of Retail Meat Price Data

作者：

William Hahn; Janet Perry

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=46314

关键词：

Price spreads;  meat;  meat pricing;  scanner data;  retail prices;  retail meat prices;  farm-to-retail; 

年份：

2009

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

42 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

The livestock industry uses information on meat prices at different stages in the marketing system to make production decisions. When grocery stores began using electronic scanners to capture prices paid for meat, it was assumed that the livestock industry could capitalize on having these point-of-sale data available as a measure of the value of its products. This report compares scanner price data with publicly available data collected by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Of the two data types, scanner data provide more information about retail meat markets, including a wider variety of meat-cut prices, multiple measures of an average price, the volume of sales, and the relative importance of discounted prices. The scanner data sample, however, is not statistically drawn, and complicated processing requirements delay its release, which makes scanner data less useful than BLS data for analyzing current market conditions.