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Food Purchase Behaviors for Low, Medium and High Income Families

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  • Elena Toma

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Food consumption and purchasing behavior depend on different factors like income level, access to markets, consume patterns, etc. The paper aims to identify, on different levels of family’s income, the frequency of acquiring foods and the sources for purchasing the main food products. We applied a questionnaire to 80 household from Braila County and these were completed by the person which make the majority of shopping activities inside family. To emphasize our results we processed the collected data with SPSS by using descriptive statistic method. Research findings indicate the importance of selfconsumption for urban low income level families and the importance of fresh and healthy foods for families with higher income.

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  • Elena Toma, 2014. "Food Purchase Behaviors for Low, Medium and High Income Families," International Journal of Academic Research in Environment and Geography, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Environment and Geography, vol. 1(2), pages 33-39, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hur:ijareg:v:1:y:2014:i:2:p:33-39
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    1. Costa, Cristina Amaro da & Santos, José Lima, 2016. "Estimating the demand curve for sustainable use of pesticides from contingent-valuation data," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 121-128.

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