This paper explores the determinants of the heterogeneity in expenditure behaviors of Italian households resident in the Marche Region, using the Households Expenditure Survey pro- vided by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) for the year 2005. Through a technique of discriminant analysis we detect the socio-demographic characteristics that bet- ter partition families into well separated groups that are internally homogenous according to their purchasing patterns
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