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Questionnaire vs. Social Media Analysis - Case Study of Organic Food

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  • Pilař, L.
  • Kvasničková Stanislavská, L.
  • Gresham, G.
  • Poláková, J.
  • Rojík, S.
  • Petkov, R.

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The amount of European farm acreage devoted to organic foods has been increasing each year over the past three decades, as farmers strive to meet consumer demand for these products. To understand what factors drive this demand, researchers have focused on the end customers' perception of organic food and their motivations to purchase it. The standard research methods are questionnaires and literature review; however, these tend to be expensive, time consuming, or involve work with secondary data. This paper compares 14 studies carried out using standard research methods with the results of a social network analysis based on 344,231 posts by 73,380 Instagram users. The result of the comparison shows that in the case of organic food, the characteristic of "healthy" is the most important one to customers, both based on questionnaire surveys and the social network analysis. Moreover, based on these two analyses, 4 key areas can be identified as factors that are important to customers buying organic food: (1) health consciousness, (2) ecological motives, (3) tasty and (4) hedonism. As the results indicate, social network analysis can be considered a method with a high potential for gaining a greater insight into customers' perceptions.

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  • Pilař, L. & Kvasničková Stanislavská, L. & Gresham, G. & Poláková, J. & Rojík, S. & Petkov, R., 2018. "Questionnaire vs. Social Media Analysis - Case Study of Organic Food," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 10(3), September.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:aolpei:281648
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.281648
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    1. Zachlod, Cécile & Samuel, Olga & Ochsner, Andrea & Werthmüller, Sarah, 2022. "Analytics of social media data – State of characteristics and application," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 1064-1076.
    2. Ingrida Košičiarová & Zdenka Kádeková & Mária Holotová & Ľubica Kubicová & Kristína Predanocyová, 2020. "Consumer Preferences in the Content of Loyalty to the Yoghurt Brand," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 12(1), March.

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