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Forecasting of Households Consumption Expenditure with Nonparametric Regression: The Case of Turkey Cover

Forecasting of Households Consumption Expenditure with Nonparametric Regression: The Case of Turkey

By: Noyan Aydin and  Taner Akmercan  
Open Access
|Nov 2016

Abstract

The relationship between household income and expenditure is important for understanding how the shape of the economic dynamics of the households. In this study, the relationship between household consumption expenditure and household disposable income were analyzed by Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing Regression which is a nonparametric method using R programming. This study aimed to determine relationship between variables directly, unlike making any assumptions are commonly used as in the conventional parametric regression. According to the findings, effect on expenditure with increasing of income and household size together increased rapidly at first, and then speed of increase decreased. This increase can be explained by having greater compulsory consumption expenditure relatively in small households. Besides, expenditure is relatively higher in middle and high income levels according to low income level. However, the change in expenditure is limited in middle and is the most limited in high income levels when household size changes.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zireb-2016-0006 | Journal eISSN: 1849-1162 | Journal ISSN: 1331-5609
Language: English
Page range: 19 - 32
Published on: Nov 19, 2016
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2016 Noyan Aydin, Taner Akmercan, published by University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business
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