"canasta familiar"

English translation: family shopping basket

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Spanish term or phrase:	canasta familiar
English translation:	family shopping basket
Entered by:	Terry Burgess

15:03 Mar 22, 2002

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: "canasta familiar"

Argentine expression regarding necessary food,medicine,a family needs monthly

syld

family shopping basket

Explanation:
Esto resulta ser un forma de medir el índice real de precios en la economía de un país: Aquí están las definiciones del Oxford:

canasta f
1 (para la compra) basket; el primer premio es una hermosa canasta (AmL) the first prize is
a beautiful hamper

canasta de divisas basket of currencies
canasta familiar (AmL) family shopping basket (used to calculate the retail price index)

2 (en baloncesto) basket; meter or hacer or anotar una canasta to make o score o shoot a
basket
3 (Jueg) canasta

Espero te ayude:-)
terry

Selected response from:

Terry Burgess
Mexico
Local time: 08:46

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Summary of answers provided

5 +6

family shopping basket

Terry Burgess

5 +3

family budget

Karina Pelech

4 +3

standard basket

P Forgas

4 +1

daily household expenses

Bill Greendyk

"family grocery basket or cart"

Henry Hinds

monthly food and medical expenses

Maria-Jose Pastor

family budget (colloquial) ; basket of good (economic indicator)

Dora O'Malley

family budget (most common); basket of goods (used as economic indicator)

Dora O'Malley

Family basket

Kenji Otomo

Cost of foodstuffs

Kenji Otomo

basic family requirements

julitravel

basic food items/food basket

Sery

Family Market Basket

Dito

budgetary requirements for a family

two2tango

4 -1

Family food hamper

Maria-Teresa Zenteno

Answers

3 mins confidence:

Family basket

Explanation:
Maybe it helps you

Kenji Otomo
Spain
Local time: 16:46
PRO pts in pair: 59

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

family shopping basket

Terry Burgess
Mexico
Local time: 08:46
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 2372

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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Sheila Hardie

4 mins

-> Muchísimas gracias SJH:-)))

agree

Paul Edgar

26 mins

-> Thank you Paul:-)))

agree

Gustavo Carias: Este es el termino utilizado en economia para referirse a los gastos basicos en viveres (comida) de una familia semanalmente.

28 mins

-> Muchas gracias Gustavo:-)))

agree

Parrot: "cesta de la compra" in inflation statistics.

36 mins

-> Muchas Gracias Lorita Bonita:-)))

neutral

Maria-Jose Pastor: never heard this expression

53 mins

-> Well my friend, you have now:-)))

agree

Henry Hinds: Yes, this term is also good, among the many suggested.

57 mins

-> Thanks Henry:-)))

disagree

Karina Pelech: Not the basket - the asker is talking of a 'budget'

1 hr

agree

CNF: canasta familiar (AmL) family shopping basket (used to calculate the retail price index) de acuerdo!

14 hrs

agree

Jill Renwick: It's used to measure the rise or fall in the cost of basic goods used by the average family

22 hrs

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

daily household expenses

Explanation:
We used the same expression in Bolivia to describe the daily living expenses.

Suerte!

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Or you could say \"costs of daily living.\" The expression is used by many, for example, when claiming that their salary is only enough for the \"canasta familiar,\" i.e. the daily living expenses, nothing extra.

Bill Greendyk
United States
Local time: 10:46
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 527

4 mins confidence:

"family grocery basket or cart"

Explanation:
Standard grocery items needed by a family, usually for purposes of comparing cost of living, etc.

Exp.

Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 08:46
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 26512

6 mins confidence:

Cost of foodstuffs

Explanation:
Or Cost of Living. It is by Collins Dictionary

Kenji Otomo
Spain
Local time: 16:46
PRO pts in pair: 59

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Family food hamper

Explanation:
I've heard this expression in English Canada.

Maria-Teresa Zenteno
Canada
Local time: 10:46
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 25

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

standard basket

Explanation:
The CPI is really just a measure of the average price of a standard "basket" of goods
and services consumed by the typical Filipino family. The composition of ...
www.bsp.gov.ph/resources/other_docs/inflation.htm

patterns from those specified in the standard basket. ... New Zealand Reserve
Bank to ensure that annual inflation in New Zealand is kept between zero ...
www.geocities.com/nzacademy/StatsWatch/1999719sw.html

Suppose we check prices on a ‘standard’ basket of goods each pay day (ie,
monthly), and from the change in price calculate the inflation rate: Eg,. ...
www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/~cmtdab/algorithmics/solutions1_2.doc

Reference: http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller

P Forgas
Brazil
Local time: 11:46
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 1249

25 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

family budget

Explanation:
Como vivo en Argentina, sé exacttamente a lo que de estás refiriendo...

Karina Pelech
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 975

27 mins confidence:

basic family requirements

Explanation:
http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/depts/sml/airaanz/conferce/wgt...

At this and other pages about wages not been enough for the worst paid people they all mention "basic family requirements", whic is exactly what we mean for 'canasta familiar' here in Argentina.
Hope I get you in time

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274
In making this promise Hughes referred to compulsory arbitration as the accepted means
of setting minimum wages. In a broader sense it had become the prime instrument of
O’Brien
preserving industrial peace. Industrial discord, he argued, was primarily a consequence of the
inadequacy of wages to meets basic family requirements. It was, therefore, necessary to
maintain basic living standards to dampen down ‘direct’ action (extract from the page mentioned)

julitravel
Local time: 11:46
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 34

33 mins confidence:

basic food items/food basket

Explanation:
In Panama we also use this expression but with a slight change "canasta básica familiar", which specifically covers the main food items in our diet, that is, the basic foods a family needs to keep healthy; this varies, of course, according to the country.

"In May 2001, community workers at the Peterborough County-City Health Unit priced the same nutritious food basket used by Health Units across the province. The nutritious food basket represents a balanced diet of basic foods purchased by average Canadians. It includes 66 different food items. Highly processed foods and foods with little or no nutritional value were not included, regardless of their popularity, e.g.. soft drinks, potato chips. The food basket did not contain any foods for special diets, such as wheat-free products. Personal and household care items, like toothpaste, soap and cleaning supplies were not included".

pcchu.peterborough.on.ca/foodcosts2001.htm

Regards, Sery

Sery
Local time: 09:46
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 1136

1 hr confidence:

Family Market Basket

Explanation:
If they are referring to a basket that is used to establsih price comparisons between regions. See "Market Basket Surveys"

If this is used as a 'BASIC FAMILY BASKET" meaning the rations received from the Government/NGO and is not standardise (i.e. not for market comparison), probably better to use 'Basic Family Basket'

Hope it helps
Luis

Dito
Local time: 15:46
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 94

6 hrs confidence:

monthly food and medical expenses

Explanation:
if it refers only to food and medicine.

If it refers to other things such as clothing, electricity, rent/mortgage, etc the expression I would use is monthly household expenses.

Maria-Jose Pastor
Local time: 10:46
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 152

7 hrs confidence:

budgetary requirements for a family

Explanation:
Hope it helps!!

two2tango
Argentina
Local time: 11:46
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 724

13 hrs confidence:

family budget (colloquial) ; basket of good (economic indicator)

Explanation:
Translation depends the situation:
Family budget = family expenses (used at the individual level)

Basket of goods = used as an economic indicator to determine inflation. Not used in everyday language to refer to the family budget.

(I live in the USA and my husband has a Master in Finance.)

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basket of goods (with an s, sorry I typed too fast)

Dora O'Malley
United States
Local time: 09:46
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 12

13 hrs confidence:

family budget (most common); basket of goods (used as economic indicator)

Explanation:
Just as above, but with the added "s"

Dora O'Malley
United States
Local time: 09:46
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 12

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