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An Alternative Approach To The Evaluation Of Goal Hierarchies Among Farmers

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  • van Kooten, G. Cornelis
  • Schoney, Richard A.
  • Hayward, Keith A.

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Results of a study of goal orderings of Saskatchewan farmers who participate in the province's FARMLAB Program are presented. We use the method of fuzzy pair-wise comparisons which allows the respondent to indicate a degree of preference between two alternative goal statements, thereby providing more information than in the binary case. From survey data ratio-scale scores are constructed for eight goal statements, and these are regressed on a set of farm enterprise and household characteristics and a psychological locus-of-control (or I-E) score. The empirical results indicate that goodness-of-fit measures are better than those obtained by other researchers, perhaps because a psychological measure (I-E score) is included as an explanatory variable for goal orderings.

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  • van Kooten, G. Cornelis & Schoney, Richard A. & Hayward, Keith A., 1986. "An Alternative Approach To The Evaluation Of Goal Hierarchies Among Farmers," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 11(1), pages 1-10, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:wjagec:32535
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.32535
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