Trends and Patterns of Meat Consumption in The European Union

The goal of this thesis is to research the consumption of meat in the European Union and to look for trends and patterns regarding it's consumption. We will take advantage of the panel data structure and use our own balanced panel data set to properly verify and quantify the relationship of macroeconomic, microeconomic, and country specific variables with annual meat consumption per capita. We used data covering the consumption of meat in the European Union member countries in the year of 2018, with data ranging from 2000 to 2018. All data in our thesis are annual and aggregated at the level of single European Union member countries. We used standard panel data analysis tools to reach statistically significant results and concluded that individual propensity to consume meat varies between countries of the European Union and found evidence suggesting that urbanization and labour force participation impact meat consumption significantly