Dietary Changes and Household Consumption Pattern in Iran: Integration of Input - Output Tables and Household Demand System

In this study، the changes in food items of current dietary after shifting toward the dietaries based on the World Health Organization (WHO)، the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) recommendations and the Mediterranean dietary were determined. Then، with integrating household demand system in a Leontief price mode based on the Mongelli et al. (2010) method، substitution and income effects of changes in dietary and consumption patterns were analyzed. Results show that more than 10 percent increment consumptions of some foods such as oil seeds، fish and seafood products، red meat and meat products and dairy products and also value-added increase of primary inputs of these food items is possible as dietary changes. Base and purchasing prices of most of commodities and services as result increase in value added of primary inputs of mentioned food items، have increased. The average percentage increase in price index of expenditure categories has fluctuated between 0. 01 and 1. 96 percent. Integration of household demand system and Leontief price model