Material Insights · Understanding the Material World

Eggs and Poultry

Their prices have moved together.

Eggs (commodity) and Poultry (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: shared flock

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Egg and meat birds are separate flocks, but both suffer from bird flu. Culls send egg prices up sharply, while chicken prices react less, so the link is negative: monthly moves correlate at minus 0.23.

  • -0.23 monthly change correlation
  • -0.05 12-month change correlation
  • -0.08 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.