2021, the year of rationing in the purchase of food. Impact of food price increases on the purchasing power of Salvadoran families

Abstract

This article is an effort to measure the effects of inflation on food prices of the 2021 in the already deteriorated family economy of households in El Salvador based on the results of the 2021 Iudop´s survey of year´s evaluation.  The reaction to the price increases was mixed; only 19 out of 100 people stated that they did not have to reduce their purchases of any food at home, 23 out of 100 people stated that they had to reduce their purchases of all or almost all food products and the rest, the majority, had to overcome inflation by prioritizing some food products over others. The rationing in food purchases is linked to other situations that expose the socioeconomic deterioration of families such as reductions in the purchase of medicines or school dropouts, also, the suffering of these situations has also been shown to affect public opinion about the State of the country at the end of the year.

ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 78, No. 774, 2023: 21-49.