Factors Associated with Consumers’ Awareness and use of Information on Food Labels

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorTalagala, T. S.
dc.contributor.authorKalukottege, C. J. P.
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-25T04:56:41Z
dc.date.available2015-09-25T04:56:41Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-25T04:56:41Z
dc.descriptionUniversity of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lankaen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study attempts to evaluate the consumers’ level of awareness and use of information provided on food labels. Three distinct consumer groups based on use of and level of importance assigned to various information printed on food labels were identified through two-step cluster analysis as: high level of use and high level of importance assigned (40.1%), low level of use but high level of importance assigned (35%) and low level of use and low level of importance assigned (24.9%). Multinomial logistic regression procedure was used to investigate the influence of individual characteristics on consumers’ awareness and use of information.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1902
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectfooden_US
dc.subjectfood labelingen_US
dc.subjectcluster analysisen_US
dc.subjectmultinomial logistic regressionen_US
dc.titleFactors Associated with Consumers’ Awareness and use of Information on Food Labelsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CONSUMERS’ AWARENESS AND USE OF INFORMATION ON FOOD LABELS.pdf
Size:
371.46 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

License bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.8 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Information Resources on Statistics