DYNAMIC OF REGIONAL PECULIARITIES IN FOOD CONSUMPTION OF THE UKRAINIAN POPULATION

Abstract

Volume and structure of consumption of food due to a socio-economic factors and nutritional habits. The consequence of this effect may be the emergence of inter-regional differences in consumption of food. Analysis of the regional characteristics is an important component of evaluation and management food security at the national and regional levels. The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamics of regional characteristics in consumption of foods based on statistics by region of Ukraine by the methods of cluster analysis. The initial data for the study were the State Statistics Service’s data on average per volume of consumption of basic foodstuffs in regions of Ukraine in 2000-2013 years. According to the results of cluster analysis of regions of Ukraine by the method of k-means was obtained fairly stable over time of 3 regions that have a close relationship with the geography and socio-economic development of regions: cluster 1 was represented by industrialized, mostly eastern regions, cluster 3 consisted of the western regions, cluster 2 included the central regions of the developed agro-industrial complex. The results of both univariate and multivariate analysis of variance indicate satisfactory quality partition regions 3 into clusters. Analysis of the relationship between the obtained clusters and regional food security indicator has showed that the cluster 3 consisted of the regions with the lowest level of food security and cluster 1 consisted of the regions with the highest level of food security.