Factors affecting fluid milk purchasing sources in Turkey

Factors effecting primary choice of consumers in food purchasing: The Turkey case

“…However the goods and choices must be highly differentiated by their individual attributes. Multinomial logit estimation has been used widely in some search such as (Schupp, Gillespie, & Reed, 1998;Ferto & Szabo, 2002;Baker, 2003;Pundo & Fraser, 2003;Hatirli, Ozkan, & Aktas, 2004).…”

A censored system of demand analysis to unpacked and prepackaged milk consumption in Turkey

“…One of the reasons precluding households to demand more on this product could be one of the primarily confounding factors as the less number of street sellers has emerged in recent years. This is because the government has banned the unpacked fluid milk selling at streets to households (Hatirli et al 2004;Akbay et al 2007;Pazarlioglu et al 2007). Calculated unpacked milk elasticity is similar to those of previous findings comprising whole milk studies as the whole milk is an inferior good (Rauniker and Huang 1984;Reynolds 1991;Cornick et al 1994).…”

“…Heterogeneity in preferences in such surveys is accommodated in applied micro-economic analysis through collecting detailed demographic characteristics of household or individual (Yen et al 2004). Among studies based on survey data, Hatirli et al (2004) focus on main factors that affect fluid milk purchasing sources in Antalya province using a probabilistic model (e.g., multinomial logit) while Pazarlioglu et al (2007) analyse the demand for both street milk (e.g., farm milk) and fluid milk in single province, Izmir, using Heckman sample selection model. Akbay et al (2007) use household data from the 2003 Turkish Household Expenditure Survey and focus on aggregated food consumption patterns using a two-step system.…”

Consumers’ fluid milk consumption behaviors in TURKEY: an application of multinomial logit model

“…Although a few past studies focused on fluid milk consumption decision of consumers for the specific region (Hatirli et al 2004), no known study was found to examine the effect of socioeconomic and demographic factors on fluid milk consumption decision in Turkey.…”