Title
Socio-economic characteristics and attitudes of organic and non-organic consumers in Lima, Peru
Other title
Características socioeconômicas e atitudes dos consumidores de produtos orgânicos e convencionais em Lima, Peru
Características socio-económicas y actitud de los consumidores de productos orgánicos y convencionales en Lima, Perú
Date Issued
01 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Universidad del Zulia
Abstract
Profiling organic and conventional consumers through their socio-economic characteristics while determining the main reasons that drive purchase of organic products are necessary to increase organic food consumption in Modern Metropolitan Lima. This study’s purpose was to 1) illustrate the demographic characteristics of organic and conventional consumers and 2) depict an assessment of the attitudes of the conventional consumers who are willing to purchase organic food in the future. The survey, carried out between April and November 2014 at organic shops in Lima, involved interviews with 145 consumers who consume conventional products and 164 consumers who consume organic products. The analysis includes a discriminant analysis, which was used to determine whether consumers purchase conventional or organic, as well as also cross tables that depicted an assessment of the attitudes of the conventional consumers regarding their willingness to purchase organic food in the future. The results suggested that educational attainment has a positive effect on the likelihood to be a conventional consumer. Additionally, health attributes and access to organic foods seem to predict conventional consumers’ future organic purchasing behavior.
Start page
518
End page
541
Volume
34
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agronomía
Economía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85031105895
Source
Revista de la Facultad de Agronomia
ISSN of the container
03787818
Sponsor(s)
Entrevistas con 309 consumidores: 145 que solo consumieron productos convencionales y 164 que consumieron productos orgánicos. El tamaño mínimo de la muestra para este estudio se calculó con base a los siguientes supuestos: aproximadamente el 4% de la población de Lima Metropolitana está interesada en productos orgánicos (Gestión, 2017); población moderna metropolitana de Lima extraída del Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (2014); error de muestreo de 8% y 95% de intervalo de confianza.
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