An Empirical Analysis on the Consumption Structure of Town Residents, Jiangxi Province—Based on the Extended Linear Expenditure System Model(ELES)

摘要

Consumer demand is the original stimulate pulling economic growth. Consumption, in the process of economy growth, plays an important role, and its main functions is embodied in the following aspects: From the demand of economy, consumption has direct and indirect to boost world economic growth; from supply, consumer can create human resources necessary for production development, so as to create social productive forces; From the structure, the change of consumption structure is the basic reasons of industrial structure change, which can guide constantly upgrading of industrial structure and promote economic growth. In this paper, we, at First, put forward the background and significance of the research on town residents' consumption structure in Jiangxi Province. Second, we briefly introduced the basic principle of extended linear expenditure system model (ELES) what would be used in this paper. Then, we, according as the data of consumption structure in recent years, used ELES to made an empirical analysis. Finally, we made a summary.