<![CDATA[The research was conducted in South East Sulawesi and aimed : 1) to identify factorsaffecting the beef demand, 2) to classify whether beef as normal or luxury goods, 3) toidentify other product that have substitution and complementary relationship to beef, 4) toidentify whether the number of population and income on beef consumption have positiverelationship, 5) to estimate the consumption of beef for 2010. The time series data in theperiods for 14 years of 1987-2000 was used for this research. A dynamic model of OrdinaryLeast Square (OLS) method was used to analyze the data. The result showed that beefdemand in South East Sulawesi depended on the price of beef, chicken, fish and consumptionof the previous year. A cross price between fish and fried oil was in elastic. A regressioncoefficient for price of beef was negative but positive for the income, therefore, beef wasclassified into normal goods. Chicken and fish had substitution relationship and fried oil hadcomplementary relationship to beef. The consumption of beef for 2010 tend to increase andwill be higher then that of the previous year.]]>
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