Determinants of fish consumption by household type in China

作者：Lin Zhou, Shaosheng Jin, Bin Zhang, Guangyan Cheng, Qiyan Zeng, Dongyang Wang · 发表于：British Food Journal · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1108/bfj-05-2014-0182 · 被引用次数：28 · 研究领域：Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets、Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to separate households into several types based on their features, and then to further investigate determinants of household fish consumption in China by figuring out consumption preference divergences between types of households under the effects of economic and socio-demographics factors. Design/methodology/approach This paper first applies Multiple Correspondence Analysis to separate the modalities of variables and households according to their features, with health knowledge and time constraint of a spouse highlighted. Then, the transcribed principal information of both variables and households has been added into Marshallian demand function with fish price, income, child effect, and health status for identification of factors on household fish demand. The robust fixed effect and robust random effect GLS regression has been conducted. Findings The paper provides empirical insights about what and how factors affect household fish consumption. It suggests that, for all households, pork is still a main substitution of fish, fish consumption regarding to each household should be constant, and fish consumption differs a lot between provinces. For households with higher dietary knowledge, the authors found that increase of income, the existence of adolescent would cause an increase in fish consumption, while illness of household member makes a decrease in fish consumption. For households with working women who have higher opportunit...