scholarly journals Attitudes and Willingness to Pay More for Organic Foods by Tennessee Consumers

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiren Bhavsar ◽  
Fisseha Tegegne ◽  
Kofi Baryeh ◽  
Prabodh Illukpitiya
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
The State ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Organic Foods

This paper examines the general knowledge of consumers regarding organic food and determines their willingness to pay more for it. Data was collected using a random sample of grocery shoppers in the state of Tennessee. The study reveals most of the respondents had a fair knowledge of what organic food was. The number of respondents who had never purchased organic food was found to be only slightly higher than the number who purchase it. A binary logistic regression found income and Environmental concern to be factors that effectively determine willingness to pay more for organic food.

scholarly journals Willingness to pay for locally produced organic foods by urban consumers in Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.H.P Malkanthi
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Organic food consumption is gradually increasing among Sri Lankan consumers due to an increased awareness on healthy food. Some consumers ready to pay more for organic food, but it varies according to many factors. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to evaluate the urban consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for organically produced food in Sri Lanka. The specific objectives of the research were to investigate the socio-economic factors, the level of awareness on organic food, the present situation of buying, and the level of additional price ready to pay and analyze the impact of socio-economic factors on consumers’ willingness to pay. The research was conducted in urban Sri Lanka, covering capital cities of six urban districts of the country; Colombo, Galle, Gampaha, Kandy, Kurunegala, and Rathnapura. Data were collected from November 2016 to May 2018, from 600 consumers, by selecting 100 consumers per city. Data analyses employed were a descriptive analysis and binary logistic regression. Results revealed that, the most of the consumers were females, married, and with a comparatively higher level of education and monthly income. Most consumers had a significant level of awareness about organic food. A lesser proportion of consumers (24%) buys organic food at present, while the majority (52.4%) was willing to pay an extra price. Out of these consumers, the highest percentage (29.3%) prefers to pay 26% to 50% premium prices. As per the results of logistic regression, age, gender, monthly income, and education were the deciding factors for consumers’ willingness to pay a premium price for organic food. Results of this research are helpful for the development of production and marketing strategies and awareness programs for urban consumers on local organic food products. JEL CODE: Q1, Q13 ARTICLE IN PRESS!

Determinants of Under-Five Mortality in Khartoum State

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hisham Elgilany
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Technique ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Medical Checkup ◽  
Under Five ◽  
Duration Of Pregnancy

This paper  aims to study the determinants of under-five mortality in Khartoum state the capital state of Sudan. Primary data on variables  of relevance to under-five mortality was collected from a random sample of  households in Khartoum state in 2018, and analyzed by using binary logistic regression technique where dying or not dying before reaching age 5 constituted the dependent variable. The resulting model revealed that the strongest predictors of under-five mortality are  age of mother , age at the first childbearing, numbers of medical checkup, duration of pregnancy less than 32 weeks, average of breastfeeding, and mother  suffers from diabetes. Under-five mortality in Khartoum state can thus be  reduced quite considerably  by positively addressing these determinants via orchestrated policy .

Antecedents of pregnant women’s purchase intentions and willingness to pay a premium for organic food

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (7) ◽  
pp. 1561-1573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faruk Anıl Konuk
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Health Consciousness

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of health consciousness, environmental concern and customer innovativeness on pregnant women’s purchase intentions and willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for organic food.Design/methodology/approachIn order to collect data, a field study was conducted using administrated questionnaires from a convenience sample of pregnant women in Istanbul, Turkey. A structural equations model was used to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsResults indicated positive effects of health consciousness, environmental concern and customer innovativeness on both purchase intentions and WTP a premium toward organic food. Specifically, it was found that health consciousness had the greatest influence on purchase intentions and WTP a premium.Originality/valueUnlike previous studies, this research focused on pregnant women and aimed to understand the role of health consciousness, environmental concerned and customer innovativeness on purchase intentions and WTP a premium for organic food.

Disrupting Terrorist Assassinations Through Situational Crime Prevention

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 1515-1537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa Mandala ◽  
Joshua D. Freilich
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Target Location ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Environmental Criminology ◽  
Global Terrorism ◽  
Global Terrorism Database

This article uses environmental criminology and situational crime prevention (SCP) to devise a series of hypotheses to determine the factors that distinguish successful from unsuccessful assassination incidents. We analyzed a random sample of 100 successful and 100 unsuccessful assassination incidents from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) that occurred between 2005 and 2014. We then consulted open sources to create new SCP variables that we added to the original GTD data. The hypotheses were tested in a binary logistic regression. Results show that successful assassinations are associated with several SCP measures, including weapon type, fatalities, terrorist proximity to target, and attack and target location.

scholarly journals Predicting Student’s Campus Placement Probability using Binary Logistic Regression

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 7605-7607
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
The State ◽  
Alternative Function ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Function Information ◽  
Established Order

Understudies trying to precise instructions for the most part chose instructive establishment with a notable popularity inside the primary settings. Many of those establishments several instances reputation controlled through bundles of compensation presented with the aid of the complainant for his understudies. In this putting it's far appropriate to explore and distinguish variables which could have an effect on the composition of the reason replacement special education .The threat within the State of Andhra Pradesh which has a excessive grouping established order of a unique training became appointed as research region. A careful survey of writing ends in a diagnosed proof of six determinants of speculative state of affairs inside the alternative special motive training.A arbitrary eg MBA alternative function information 250 is assembled from various organizations and located parallel relapse version became suited for the six signs for assessing information possibilities for placing alternative purpose. Assessed Results show that the possibility of putting in a simple exam is inspired by using 4 signs: CGPA, Specializes in PG, UG and Specialization in Gender.

scholarly journals Go Green and Recycle: Analyzing the Usage of Plastic Bags for Shopping in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12537
Author(s):  
Yong Li ◽  
Bairong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Optimal Price ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
Research Gap

The extensive usage of plastic bags has caused detrimental environmental damage, and an influx of research efforts have been undertaken to reduce people’s usage of plastic bags. However, studies regarding people’s reuse of plastic bags are still scarce. Therefore, this study is motivated to bridge this research gap by examining the determinants of old plastic bag usage and consumers’ maximum willingness to pay price for plastic carrier bags via a semi-structured online survey on a random sample of 777 Chinese consumers. Descriptive summary, KW test, and logistic regression were used to identify potential determinants and their influence on consumers’ usage of old plastic bags. The findings indicate that consumers’ age, altruistic values, and their perceived plastic ban effectiveness are positively associated with the usage of old plastic bags. Specifically, the elder and altruistic consumers who are positive for plastic ban effectiveness are more likely to reuse old plastic bags. Furthermore, when plastic carrier bags are priced at RMB 2.0, 81.2% of the surveyed consumers say they will stop buying them. Based on the pricing setting experience from the Irish plastic bag policy, we suggest that the optimal price of plastic carrier bags is RMB 12.0, which is also six times of the consumer’s maximum willingness to pay price.

scholarly journals Chinese consumers’ willingness to pay for organic foods: a conceptual review

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Rui Li ◽  
Chien-Hsing Lee ◽  
Yu-Ting Lin ◽  
Chi-Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Food Markets ◽  
Organic Foods ◽  
Health Consciousness ◽  
Attitudinal Factors

China has become one of the largest food markets in the world. Alone with its rising market power, we conceptually review relevant literature to discuss important issues on Chinese consumers’ willingness to pay for organic foods. Important factors that might determine consumer willingness to pay were discussed (i.e. culture, demography, attitudinal factors, health consciousness, individual norms, consumer knowledge, food safety, environmental concern, animal welfare, purchasing power, nutritional value). We then put forward a prospect of the future research on consumers’ willingness to pay for organic foods in China and other developing countries. Practical and policy implications are also elaborated.

scholarly journals Consumer Purchase Intention towards Organic Foods

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Sajeeb Kumar Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Organic Foods ◽  
Section Data ◽  
Food Purchase ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Consumer Purchase Intention ◽  
Convenience Sampling

This research tries to measure consumer purchase intention toward organic foods. The descriptive and causal research design was used. Primary cross-section data were collected by administering structured questionnaires. Two-hundred responses were collected. The convenience sampling method was used. The PLS-SEM tool was used to test the psychometric and econometric dimensions of the proposed model. This research confirmed that environmental concern, trust, and availability were the important predictor for motivating organic food purchase intention. Health concern and awareness were not supported for organic food purchase intention. Marketers have to make their organic food easily available in the markets with a view of health and environmental consciousness to generate trust.  

Evaluating the implementation potential of a transcultural tool for Tamil migrants with gestational diabetes mellitus living in Switzerland

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Gestational Diabetes ◽  
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Private Practices ◽  
Populations At Risk ◽  
Management Procedures

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus is a condition that affects many pregnancies and ethnicity appears to be a risk factor. Data indicate that approximately 18% of Tamil women are diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus. Today, approximately 50,000 of Tamils live in Switzerland. To date, there is no official tool available in Switzerland that considers the eating and physical activity habits of this migrant Tamil population living in Switzerland, while offering a quick overview of gestational diabetes mellitus and standard dietetics management procedures. The NutriGeD project led by Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland aimed at closing this gap. The aim of this present study was to evaluate the implementation potential of the tools developed in the project NutriGeD for dietetic counseling before their wide scale launch in Swiss hospitals, clinics and private practices. Method: An online survey was developed and distributed to 50 recruited healthcare professionals working in the German speaking region of Switzerland from October – December 2016 (31% response rate). The transcultural tools were sent to participants together with the link to the online survey. The evaluation outcome was analysed using binary logistic regression and cross tabulation analysis with IBM SPSS version 24.0, 2016. Results: 94% (N=47) respondents believed that the transcultural tools had good potential for implementation in hospitals and private practices in Switzerland. A binary logistic regression analysis revealed that the age of participants had a good correlation (42.1%) on recommending the implementation potential of the transcultural tool. The participants with age group 34- 54 years old where the highest group to recommend the implementation potential of the transcultural tool and this was found to be statistically significant (p=0.05). 74% (34 out of 50) of the respondents clearly acknowledged the need for transcultural competence knowledge in healthcare practices. 80% (N =40) of the respondents agreed that the information presented in the counseling display folder was important and helpful while 60% (N= 30) agreed to the contents being clinically applicable. 90% (N=45) participants recommended the availability of the evaluated transcultural tools in healthcare settings in Switzerland. Conclusion: The availability in healthcare practice of the evaluated transcultural tools was greatly encouraged by the Swiss healthcare practitioners participating in the survey. While they confirmed the need for these transcultural tools, feed-backs for minor adjustments were given to finalize the tools before their official launch in practice. The developed materials will be made available for clinical visits, in both hospitals and private practices in Switzerland. The Migmapp© transcultural tool can serve as a good approach in assisting healthcare professionals in all fields, especially professionals who practice in areas associated with diet - related diseases or disorders associated with populations at risk.

Intimate Partner Violence and its Association With Contraceptive Use Among Women in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (Spring 2019) ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Kashif Siddique ◽  
Rubeena Zakar ◽  
Ra’ana Malik ◽  
Naveeda Farhat ◽  
Farah Deeba
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Odds Ratios

The aim of this study is to find the association between Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and contraceptive use among married women in Pakistan. The analysis was conducted by using cross sectional secondary data from every married women of reproductive age 15-49 years who responded to domestic violence module (N = 3687) of the 2012-13 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey. The association between contraceptive use (outcome variable) and IPV was measured by calculating unadjusted odds ratios and adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals using simple binary logistic regression and multivariable binary logistic regression. The result showed that out of 3687 women, majority of women 2126 (57.7%) were using contraceptive in their marital relationship. Among total, 1154 (31.3%) women experienced emotional IPV, 1045 (28.3%) women experienced physical IPV and 1402 (38%) women experienced both physical and emotional IPV together respectively. All types of IPV was significantly associated with contraceptive use and women who reported emotional IPV (AOR 1.44; 95% CI 1.23, 1.67), physical IPV (AOR 1.41; 95% CI 1.20, 1.65) and both emotional and physical IPV together (AOR 1.49; 95% CI 1.24, 1.72) were more likely to use contraceptives respectively. The study revealed that women who were living in violent relationship were more likely to use contraceptive in Pakistan. Still there is a need for women reproductive health services and government should take initiatives to promote family planning services, awareness and access to contraceptive method options for women to reduce unintended or mistimed pregnancies that occurred in violent relationships.

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