APPLICATION OF ARMAX MEASURE FOR ANALYSIS OF FOOD PREFERENCE CHANGES IN ASIAN COUNTRIES 2001-2013

The research of food preferences has, besides a sociological aspect, an economic aspect and is a good starting point for estimating the willingness to incur expenditures on the consumption of individual products. In the paper, the authors compared food preferences on the Asian market for 9 product groups. Due to the complexity of the problem, the study included 17 selected countries of Central and Southeast Asia (China, Mongolia, Japan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka). The research was carried out on data from 2001 to 2013 with the use of the methods of gradual data analysis. In some countries there were no major changes in nutrition and food consumption, which can be explained by the stabilized political and socio-economic situation. The best example is Thailand.