Section 5 provided tables showing average food expenditures classified by levels of
net family income and each of a number of household characteristics considered in
turn. This Section gives the results of a multivariate analysis of the food
expenditure data in which net family income and all the household characteristics
appear simultaneously. Household characteristics are correlated with one another
(for example Income Support or Family Credit receipt is more common in some
household composition types than in others). This analysis gives a view of the
independent effects of income and each of the household characteristics
