Official USDA Alaska and Hawaii Thrifty Food Plans: Cost of Food at Home - 2nd half 2000 - 1 - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

Family Economics and Nutrition Review, Wntr, 2001

Official USDA Alaska and Hawaii Thrifty Food Plans: Cost of Food
at Home (2nd half 2000)(1)

                                          ALASKA

      AGE-GENDER GROUPS          Weekly Cost   Monthly Cost

INDIVIDUALS(2)
  Child, 6-8 years                 $26.30        $114.00
  Child, 9-11 years                 31.10         134.80
  Male, 20-50 years                 34.40         149.10
  Female, 20-50 years               31.50         136.50

FAMILY OF 2(3)
  20-50 years                       72.50         314.20

FAMILY OF 4
  Couple, 20-50 years and          123.30         534.40
  children, 6-8 and 9-11 years

                                          HAWAII

      AGE-GENDER GROUPS          Weekly Cost   Monthly Cost

INDIVIDUALS(2)
  Child, 6-8 years                 $31.70        $137.40
  Child, 9-11 years                 38.10         165.10
  Male, 20-50 years                 42.10         182.40
  Female, 20-50 years               38.30         166.00

FAMILY OF 2(3)
  20-50 years                       88.40         383.20

FAMILY OF 4
  Couple, 20-50 years and          150.20         650.90
  children, 6-8 and 9-11 years

(1) Basis is that all meals and snacks are purchased at stores and
prepared at home. For specific foods and quantities of foods in the
Thrifty Food Plan, see Family Economics Review, No. 1 (1984). The food
plans are based on 1977-78 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey data
adjusted for Alaska and Hawaii and updated to current dollars using
the Consumer Price Index for specific food items for the Anchorage,
Alaska, and Honolulu, Hawaii, areas.

(2) The costs given are for individuals in 4-person families. For
individuals in other size families, the following adjustments are
suggested: 1-person--add 20 percent; 2-person--add 10 percent;
3-person--add 5 percent; 5- or 6-person--subtract 5 percent;
7- (or more) person--subtract 10 percent.

(3) Ten percent added for family size adjustment.