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2007 Annual Consumer Bankruptcy Demographics Report

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The deteriorating American economic situation in 2007 was first felt by individual consumers and families throughout the country experiencing personal financial crisis and an increase in home foreclosures. This personal level economic crisis was followed by failures and retractions in the financial services sector, which in turn was followed by ...
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Profiling demographic characteristics of alienated consumers

Journal of Business Research, 1981
Abstract Alienation, a subject of considerable research in some behavioral science areas, has been receiving growing attention in relation to unfavorable attitudes toward the marketplace, consumer disgruntlement, and other aspects of consumerism. This paper discusses several elements of alienation adapted and applied specifically to consumers as they
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Some Communication and Demographic Determinants of Adolescent Consumer Learning

Journal of Consumer Research, 1975
Differential processes associated with four measures of consumer learning—price accuracy, slogan recall, brand specification and attitudes toward advertising—are examined in a cross-sectional analysis of rural middle and high school adolescents.
Moore, Roy L, Stephens, Lowndes F
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Consumer's Channel Choice: Effects of Consumer Shopping Experience and Demographic Characteristics

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings, 2012
The primary goal of this study is to examine what role consumers’ shopping experience plays in their choice of shopping venues between online and shopping malls. We also investigated whether their channel choice vary across the product categories. A mail survey was conducted to collect information regarding a consumer’s channel choice between online ...
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Demographic Variation: Its Impact on Consumer Behavior

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1957
Papers by Fisher I and Lydall 2 are illustrative of recent efforts by economists to determine how demographic variation affects consumer behavior. It is obvious that such population characteristics as age, family size, and educational levels do change over time.
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Demographic Correlates to Loyalty in Frequently Purchased Consumer Services

Journal of Professional Services Marketing, 1991
This research examines eight commonly purchased services to determine whether demographics arc associated with consumer loyalty to those services, both individually and collcc- tively. The nature of service loyalty is briefl discussed and some important distinctions between it and brand I' oyalty are identified.
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Variations in consumer sentiment across demographic groups [PDF]

, 2006
Consumer sentiment is one of the many macroeconomic indicators tracked by policymakers and the public. The aggregate numbers in consumer sentiment indexes, such as the University of Michigan's Index of Consumer Sentiment, conceal a wealth of demographic-specific information.
Leslie McGranahan, Maude Toussaint-Comeau   +1 more
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Consumer Response to Food Risk Information: Demographic Differences

1990
Consumers were surveyed regarding their knowledge, attitudes and practices related to food safety and food safety information and governmental roles in providing food safety services. They were asked about their use of various information sources with respect to different food safety risks, their confidence in the sources and the information provided.
Carol S. Kramer, Karen P. Penner
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[Demographic characteristics of consumers in Indonesia?].

Majalah demografi Indonesia, 1994
"This paper presents a mosaic of business opportunities arising from the different demographic characteristics of the provinces in the western part of Indonesia. The author discusses the total number of population, density, and per capita income to [shed] some light on the volume of the market. He also presents the business impact of the [changes] in
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Consumer Demand for Convenience Foods: Demographics and Expenditures

2007
The market for convenience foods in the USA is growing, with nominal dollar sales showing a 53% increase between 1987 and 1998. The impact of economic and socioeconomic factors on purchases of these foods was investigated. Expenditure on ready meals was found to increase as income increased and to decrease as the age of the head of the household ...
Harris, James Michael, Shiptsova, Rimma, Harris, James Michael, Shiptsova, Rimma   +3 more
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