The demand for private transport in Spain: a microeconometric approach

Abstract

Repeated observations on the expenditure habits of households permit an atractive tratment for the zero expenditures in general and infrenquent purchase in particular that contaminate the information in a typical cross-section budget survey. This paper exploits in this sense the panel features of the Spanish Encuesta Continua de Presupuestos Familiares in the context of vehicle ownership and associated rate of usage in order to contribute with a microeconometric study of the consumption of private transport to the recent trend in empirical demand studies at the household level for the Spanish economy.