What are the expenses in raising a child? Or more children? Those are the questions that
started this research, which entails the analysis of the budget distribution issue in relation to
family expenses from the parent’s point of view – buyers of products for the whole family.
The chosen research issue for this study is represented by the analysis of the structure of the
expenses budget of families with 1 to 3 children aged between 0 and 14 years as well as
determining the average expenses dedicated to children in the family budget. For this, we
constructed through the quota method, a sample of 60 families supporting children aged 0 to
14. During the period of 3 consecutive months (November 2019 – January 2020) these
families put all their expenses in a daily journal meant to record them based on different
categories and sub-categories.
The data analysis comparatively presents the main types of expenses destined strictly for
children
