D11 - Consumer Economics: TheoryReturn

The paper analyses changes in consumer standard of living in the Czech Republic from 2010 to 2013 resulting from the Czech Statistical Office's annual survey "Expenditures and Consumption of Households Included in Household Budgets". Based on revealed preference theory and index theory (Paasche and Laspeyres price and quantitative indices), consumer standard of living is evaluated both in general and according to single economic activity categories, i.e. employees with higher and lower education, the self-employed, unemployed consumers and pensioners. The results are compared and discussed with conclusions ensuing from Engel's law.