Econometric analysis of consumer expenditure for Sheep meat in Damascus and Damascus-Rural provinces

This study aimed to choose a suitable standard model of consumer expenditures on local sheep meat at two levels, family and capita by using cross-section data for the year 2009. Results showed that the Log-Inverse (LI) functional was the best model to express the relationship between total expenditure and spending on sheep meat expenditure at family and capita levels and the values of coefficient of determination (R2) were 0.203 and 0.37 at family and capita levels respectively with expenditure elasticity was 0.867 at family average expenditure level. This might reflect the fact that the sheep meat is considered a luxury commodity in case of decreasing family average expenditure below 18001 SP per month.