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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"household size"”.
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Nutrition and social scale: the impact of social differentiation on dietary intake
… The principal hypothesis is that a group of households having higher social characteristics, in terms of the level of household income, occupation and education, is associated positively, and in terms of household size, is associated negatively, with adequate food intake. To determine the …
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The role of packaging in influencing the decision to buy pre-packaged food products
… age, gender, income level, education level, and household size. The results show that both food packaging elements play a role in influencing purchase decision and that the informational elements are relatively more important. There results further show significant differences in the role played …
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Understanding Food Waste Behavior and Ways To Influence Positive Change and Waste Reduction
… control, and overall behavioral intent to reduce household consumer food waste among a sample of consumers; second, to examine the extent to which select demographic measures can explain variation in the three subdimensions of the behavioral intent to reduce household consumer food waste (i.e. …
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Household economies of scale, food consumption and intra-household allocation of time
… tests three utility theoretic models of the household behavior. Larger households economize money and time by sharing expenses and specializing labor within and outside of the home. A “paradox” arises when the budget share of food declines with household size in the consumer expenditure …
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Investigating household behaviour towards recycling: a case study in the town of Vryheid- Bhekuzulu
This study aimed to investigate household awareness and willingness towards recycling. The study was limited to Vryheid and Bhekuzulu a small town situated in the Northern parts of Kwazulu-Natal. The empirical study investigated demographic variables such as gender, ethnicity, household size and …
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Public Acceptance of Medical Screening Recommendations, Safety Risks, and Implied Liabilities Requirements for Space Flight Participation
… Administration guidance and regulations; age, household size, marital status, employment status, and employment class. Specifically, increases in age and household size, as well as those never married, those employed full-time, and the self-employed exhibited significance in increased …
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The analysis of consumers' decision-making style dimensions across different product classes
… of the differences of consumers' age, household size, job type, income, marital status, child existence in household and gender, and the consumers' decision-making style dimensions. The findings indicate that different profiles of consumers' decision-making style dimensions are formed …
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Awareness and Willingness to Pay for Moringa as a Leafy Vegetable in Limpopo Province
… (p<0.01), health benefits (p<0.01) and bunch size (p<0.05). The results of the Tobit Regression model showed that factors that were found to statistically influence the bids were household size, years consuming moringa, married and freshness. The household size, years consuming moringa and …
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The metabolism of living space : allometric scaling of energy use in UK domestic buildings
… data relating to ~14k randomly sampled households across England. Scaling relationships are established between household size and total energy usage, both across the entire housing stock and by selected building characteristics, revealing scaling effects pertaining to specific domestic …
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Housing Challenges of Asian and Pacific Island Elders in the United States from 1995 to 2007
… The sample was Asian and Pacific Island households with a head 65+ who responded to the American Housing Survey (AHS) from 1995 through 2007 (N = 1,039). Asian and Pacific Island elders included those who lived in the U.S. for a long time as well as recent immigrants. Several statistical …
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A framework for key factors affecting compliance with self-help housing standards in Bauchi
… these include finance, public awareness and household size. The factor loadings ranges between 0.5 to 0.9, Cronbach’s alpha ranges from 0.7 to 0.8. While CR and AVE values are 0.7 and 0.5 respectively. In objective two, the results showed that finance and public awareness have a significant …
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Impacts of socioeconomic and demographic factors on household expenditure for disaggregate fish and shellfish in the United States
… information, notably own price, income, and household size elasticity measures, about consumer behavior relating to specific fish and shellfish products. The methodology used in this study is as follows: (1) organize and analyze at-home seafood consumption data for specific finfish and …
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Consumer debt: Implications for consumption behavior of households in the United States
… effect of debt load on consumption behavior of households; specifically, it was to examine whether consumer debt load is related to total consumption expenditure and to consumption expenditure pattern. The data were taken from the 1988 Consumer Expenditure Survey. The sample consisted of 1,649 …
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Factors affecting the food security status and participation in food security intervention programmes in Maphumulo
… KZN Province to ensure food security. However, household food security status remains a concern in South Africa and there is noted a lack of participation in the intervention programmes. Using a proportional stratified sampling procedure the study sampled 495 respondents (330 “One Home One …
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Investigation into spatial variations in the production of market sector housing in England
… continuing to grow and a reduction in average household size there is an increasing gap between need and provision. This shortage has exacerbated house price inflation, making it increasingly difficult for first-time buyers to enter the market and causing further disparity in wealth …
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Reaching the Chronic Poor and Food Insecure after a Disaster: The Case of Niger
… to investigate key factors associated with household vulnerability to drought and economic downturns from exposure to shocks in Niger, conditioned on household and community assets. The findings provides evidence that factors positively affecting ability to overcome drought and economic …
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State pension and labour market dynamics in South Africa
… 1993. It is possible that pension receipt in a household could have a strong effect on labour market outcomes. This paper investigates the effects of access to pension income on labour supply and employment probability, The large negative elasticity of labour supply to pension income found in …
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Travel demand modeling for developing countries
… third-world contain a mix of ethnic groups or households with structural differences in income and social characteristics. Thus, a direct application of the methodology of the UTPP may not be relevant to developing countries in third world settings; The main objectives of this research are to …
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Rural Credit Markets in Ethiopia: Coexistence, Persistence, and Demand
… from 15 villages in Ethiopia. The sample size is about 1500 households for each round. . Chapter one examines the determinants of simultaneous borrowing and lending. We also investigate why some households in rural Ethiopia simultaneously borrow and lend. Who are these households? Panel …
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A demographic, economic and social analysis of the immigrant Irish community in the township of Birkenhead, 1841-1877
… 1861 and 1871. The issues addressed include the size of the settlement, household size and structure, age profileand occupational structure. To facilitate comparison with the host population, a 10 per cent random sample of non-Irish households has been collected from the same census years and …
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