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Gilimani, Benedict Mandlenkosi. "The economic contribution of home production for home consumption in South African agriculture." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1795.
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Yust, Becky Love. "Energy use by households in a rural area of the Philippines /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487324944211661.
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Leslie, Catherine Amoroso. "Identity, consumption, and frequency of behavior among contempory needleworkers /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148645787178622.
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Stewart, Erik Robert. "Family communication and interaction as mediators of depression in rural youth /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148776035782144.
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Tolstrup, Karen Dodge. "Agents of Change and 'The Art of Right Living: How Home Economists Influenced Post World War II Consumerism." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/TolstrupKD2006.pdf.
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Cicero, Anne Hinnant Amanda. "Messages of frugality and consumption in the Ladies' Home Journal 1920s-1940s /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5345.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 22, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Amanda Hinnant. Includes bibliographical references.
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Othman, Mumtazah Binti. "Time use and sequence of tasks in management of household and agricultural work in rural households in the Philippines /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487683401441196.
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Hyat, Taimur. "Essays on consumption and asset mobility in rural Pakistan : a microeconometric approach." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391159.
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Fong, Ka-ki Catherine. "Consuming home in Hong Kong a qualitative study of middle class aspirations and practice /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37844544.
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Chiang, Mei-Fang. "Retirement Consumption Behavior: Evidence from HRS CAMS 2001-2009." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338247837.
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Acheson, Julianna 1965. "Traversing political economy and the household: An ethnographic analysis of life after communism in Kojsov, a rural village in eastern Slovakia." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282421.
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This dissertation is the result of ethnographic fieldwork in eastern Slovakia in the village of Kojsov during the year of 1993. The goal of the dissertation is to examine issues of the household economy in light of the "transition from communism to capitalism". At the level of the household differences between consumption and production can be revealed and reaction to opportunities from the 1989 Velvet Revolution are made lucid. Household composition, production, and consumption form the basis for the second part of this dissertation. I point out how individuals consume significantly less, produce more in kitchen gardens, and endure the financial stress of economic change. Of prime importance during this period of transition is the process of decollectivization and reprivatization of land in rural Slovakia. This process is the focus of the third and final section of the dissertation. Villagers in Kojsov are extremely slow to reprivatize their family lands. This behavior is tied to a village ethos of egalitarianism, an antipathy for stratification, and overall lack of capital necessary to take the risks integral to entrepreneurial activity. Thus both ideology and limited finances determine the fate of Kojsov's land. This dissertation is a case study which examines contemporary issues surrounding peasants, the moral economy, the "transition" to capitalism and entrepreneurship.
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Makokha, Adava Joy. "An Analysis of Small Rural Women's Groups in Post Independent Kenya." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392811352.
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Kerr, Emily W. Pham Van Hoang. "Micro-credit and household productivity evidence from Bangladesh /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5359.
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Le, Tollec Agnès. "Finding a New Home (Economics) : Towards a Science of the Rational Family, 1924-1981." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASN006.
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Cette thèse retrace l’histoire de l’économie de la famille aux États-Unis entre 1924 et 1981. Je montre que dans la première partie du XXe siècle, les économistes voyaient principalement les comportements au sein de la famille comme le résultat des normes sociales. Par suite, la famille restait pour l’essentiel à la périphérie de l’économie. A la fin des années 1920 et au début des années 1930, le désintérêt de la plupart des économistes pour ce sujet a permis la création d’une économie de la famille au sein de départements d’économie domestique, distincts des départements traditionnels d’économie. Cette sous-discipline explore les contraintes structurelles (psychologiques, sociales et économiques) qui pèsent sur les comportements familiaux tout en cherchant à améliorer la situation des familles. Elle reste marginale en économie, d’une part, parce que les comportements familiaux semblent trop différents des comportements marchands ; d’autre part, parce que des femmes pour l’essentiel la composent. Après 1945, les économistes analysent les comportements familiaux comme étant le résultat de la maximisation de la satisfaction des familles par rapport à des contraintes économiques. L’économie de la famille rejoint alors l’économie néoclassique et devient majoritairement masculineThis dissertation traces the displacement of family economics from the periphery to the center of economics. I show that in the early twentieth century, most economists viewed the family as ruled by social norms – tradition, customs and morals. Accordingly, they did not regard the study of the family as coming within the scope of economics. Women economists who had an interest in family were able to create a separate family economics field within home economics departments in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This field explored the structural constraints on household behavior and was geared towards increasing family welfare. Because household behavior seemed so different from market behavior and because it was a female field, studies on the family remained marginal within economics. After World War II, economists began to interest themselves in consumption and from the 1960s they accounted for a wide range of family behaviors using a utility maximization framework. As family economics became mainstream, it was masculinized
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Gomez-Soto, Franz Marcelo. "Deposit facilities and consumption smoothing dynamic stochastic model of precautionary wealth choices for a credit-constrained rural household /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181834440.
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Alpízar, Carlos Andrés. "Risk coping strategies and rural household production efficiency quasi-experimental evidence from El Salvador /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180206697.
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Tokoyama, Yuki. "Three essays on Japanese household food consumption." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180272913.
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Gomez-Soto, Franz M. "Deposit facilities and consumption smoothing: a dynamic stochastic model of precautionary wealth choices for a credit-constrained rural household." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1181834440.
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Collins, Sonia Fransiena Johanna. "Huishoudingskuld in Suid-Afrika en die invloed op private verbruiksbesteding (Afrikaans)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27825.
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AFRIKAANS: Die studie ondersoek die verband tussen huishoudingskuld in Suid-Afrika en finale verbruiksbesteding deur huishoudings en daar is bevind dit is 'n wedersydse, moeilik voorspelbare en nie 'n eenvoudige proses nie, omdat verskeie faktore in die ekonomie dit beïnvloed. Die stand van die ekonomie en veral die persepsie van die verbruiker is belangrike faktore. Geld het 'n evolusie ondergaan en minder tasbaar geword as gevolg van krediet. Dit het beheer daarvan moeilik gemaak. Die koste van krediet is 'n geleentheid vir die Sentrale Bank om beheer oor geldskepping uit te oefen. Monetêre beleid skep 'n effektiewe omgewing vir die ekonomie om te funksioneer. Beleid beheer die vraag en aanbod van geld direk (deur rentekoerse) of indirek ( deur vraag- en aanbodfaktore te manipuleer). Geld in die moderne ekonomie verwys na krediet en veral na krediet van huishoudings. Totale uitstaande krediet van huishoudings, en die samestelling daarvan het oor die afgelope 25 jaar aansienlik verander. Dit toon op 'n verandering in die mag van die Sentrale Bank oor die geldskeppingsproses. Bevolkingswelvaart word gemeet aan die vermoë van huishoudings om inkome te bestee. Finale verbruiksbesteding deur huishoudings is die belangrikste deel van totale besteding in die ekonomie. Suid-Afrika klassifiseer finale verbruiksbesteding deur huishoudings volgens die 1993 Stelsel van Nasionale Rekeninge. Verskille tussen die 1993 en 1968 weergawes sluit verskille in ten opsigte van tipe klassifikasie ( doelwit versus duursaamheid) en tussen werklike finale verbruiksbesteding (finale verbruiksbesteding deur huishoudings plus individuele verbruik deur die owerheid) en finale verbruiksbesteding deur huishoudings. Verskillende teorieë bestaan met betrekking tot die effek van rentekoerse, inflasie en finansiële liberalisering op besteding, verbruik oor die lewensiklus, die verbruiksbestedingsfunksie, die verwantskap tussen inkome en besteding en marginale verbruiksbesteding. Die verloop van finale verbruiksbesteding deur huishoudings in Suid¬Afrika oor die afgelope 25 jaar toon dat die samestelling heelwat verander het soos die ekonomie deur verskillende fases gegaan het. Besteding aan duursame en semi-duursame goedere het toenemend gedaal, terwyl besteding aan veral dienste, skerp gestyg het. Die algemene beskikbaarheid van krediet het veroorsaak dat huishoudings al meer op skuld begin leef het gedurende die negentigs. Die gevolgtrekking is dat, in teenstelling met vroeë bevindings, huishoudings nie noodwendig slegs duursame goedere finansier met krediet nie, maar ook nie-duursame goedere en dienste. Die hoë vlakke van krediet en die koste van krediet, het oor die lang termyn 'n negatiewe effek op besteding. Die verband tussen huishoudingskuld in Suid-Afrika en finale verbruiksbesteding deur huishoudings hang af van die faktore wat bestedingsbesluite deur huishoudings beïnvloed, wat monetêre en fiskale beleid insluit. Die toepassing van monetêre beleid werk deur die transmissiemeganisme, wat deur verskeie kanale werk. Die kredietkanaal bestaan uit die balansstaatkanaal en die bankleningskanaal. Die balansstaatkanaal verduidelik die werking van 'n verandering in monetêre beleid op die welvaart van die bevolking. Die bankleningskanaal werk direk deur rentekoerse en banklenings. Verskillende denkskole ondersteun verskillende kanale. Die endogene/eksogene geld vraagstuk lei tot die gevolgtrekking wat gemaak is, dat die voorraad van kredietgeld altyd vraag-bepaald is en dat die aanbod daarvan slegs indirek deur die Sentrale Bank beheer kan word deur die omstandighede in die geldmark (wat rentekoerse affekteer) te verander. ENGLISH: The study investigates the relationship between household debt in South Africa and final consumption expenditure by households and it was found to be an interrelated, difficult process that is not easy to predict, because various factors in the economy influence both. The most important ones are the state of the economy and the perception of the consumer. Money has evolved into something less tangible as a result of credit. That increased the difficulty of control over it. The cost of credit provided an opportunity to the Central Bank to control the creation of money. Monetary policy creates an efficient environment in which the economy can function. Policy control the supply and demand of money directly (through interest rates) or indirectly (through manipulation of the supply and demand factors). Money in the modem economy means credit and specifically credit of households. Total outstanding credit of households and the composition of credit changed dramatically over the last 25 years. This is an indication of a change in the control of the Central Bank over the money creation process. The wealth of the nation is measured by the ability of households to spend income. Final consumption expenditure by households is the most important part of total consumption in the economy. South Africa classifies final consumption expenditure by households according to the 1993 System of National Accounts. Differences between the 1993 and 1968 versions are with respect to type of classification (purpose versus durability) and between actual final consumption and final consumption expenditure by households. There are different theories regarding the effect of interest rates, inflation, financial liberalisation on consumption, consumption over the life-cycle, the consumption function, the relationship between income and consumption and marginal consumption expenditure. The trend in final consumption expenditure by households in South Africa over the last 25 years shows the changes as a result of the different phases of the economy. Consumption of durable and semi-durable goods have decreased continually, while demand for services increased sharply. Households increasingly financed expenditure with credit during the nineties, being the result of the availability of credit. The conclusion is that households not only finance durable goods with credit but also non-durable goods and services, which is contradictory to previous conclusions. The high levels of credit and the cost of credit have a negative effect on consumption over the long term. The relationship between household debt in South Africa and final consumption expenditure is determined by factors that influence decisions about spending, which include monetary and fiscal policy. The influence of monetary policy can be described through the transmission mechanism, that work through different channels. The credit channel consists of the balance sheet channel and the bank lending channel. The balance sheet channel explains the effect of changes in monetary policy on the wealth of the nation. The bank lending channel work through interest rates and bank loans. Different schools of thought support different channels. The exogenous/endogenous money supply debate lead to the conclusion that the supply of credit money is always demand determined and that control by the Central Bank is indirect through the influence of supply and demand conditions in the money market.Dissertation (MCom (Economics))--University of Pretoria, 2005.
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Mortimer, Allyn M. "Power in the garden exploring the lives of Missouri farm women and their vegetable gardens during the Great Depression /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4749.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 6, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Fong, Ka-ki Catherine, and 方嘉琪. "Consuming home in Hong Kong: a qualitative study of middle class aspirations and practice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37844544.
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Malaeb, Bilal. "Coping with rural risk : assets, labour allocation, migration, and community networks." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/coping-with-rural-risk-assets-labour-allocation-migration-and-community-networks(31147d2b-92a2-4590-a6f5-8f27c29fe645).html.
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Given the importance of agricultural income for rural households, erratic weather conditions pose an austere threat to these households' livelihoods. This thesis explores ways through which households in agrarian economies smooth their consumption, engage in community networks, and readjust their labour allocation in response to shocks. In a setting of inherent risk, absence of institutional insurance, and labour market inefficiencies, poor households are often left to their own devices to cope with risk. The aim of this study is to examine the different risk-coping strategies adopted by households in rural India, assess their effectiveness, and derive implications for public policy. The results suggest that, in an environment characterised by agro-climatic risk, households are able to self-insure and smooth their consumption in the face of income shocks. Their coping mechanisms, however, may reduce their resilience to future shocks. In fact, small landholders tend to rely more heavily on their productive asset stock, while medium landholders find it optimal to preserve and accumulate their productive assets when exposed to exogenous income shocks. Households also change their labour allocation and reduce their self-employment in agriculture. Furthermore, households in rural areas can migrate to urban areas or engage in societal risk-sharing arrangements to mitigate the risk. The results of this thesis suggest that being part of a community network discourages individuals' migration and increases the likelihood of undertaking riskier activities. The findings also confirm the importance of portfolio adjustments and the diversification of household assets in buffering consumption. These conclusions form the basis of several policy implications, the most important of which is providing formal insurance schemes to encourage the accumulation of assets, technology, and skills.
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Athanasios, Athanasenas. "Food security in less developed countries: assessing the effects of food aid in rural Kenya as a food supply shock on consumption and nutrition." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45639.
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Food Security can be defined in terms of establishing national or regional minimum nutritional standards, or in terms of securing national or regional self-sufficiency production levels. In this research, food security is viewed from a nutritional-economic standpoint. The prevalence of severe malnutrition and food production instability, especially in Sub-Saharan African Countries, creates the impetus to identify the several economic aspects which characterize the overall food sector and its security floor. Hence, LDC governments, drawing on the WFP (World Food Program) and other international agencies, are interested in formulating a desirable national food strategy which, to a certain degree, secures a balanced national food production sector and consumption pattern.
Food aid, in turn, is an essential mechanism designed to serve developmental purposes, such as income redistribution or provision of food as a real resource. Food-for-Work (FFW), as a specific form of food aid programs, represents a short-run food supply shock in the market environment of the recipient country's economy, since it is used as a "bridge" for meeting the basic nutritional requirements of the poorest households in the short-run. In the long-run, FFW can be used for developing infrastructure, creating jobs and advancing working skills, providing additional income to participants, and further improving the overall nutritional status of the poor.
Recognizing these features of food aid, this research focused on the empirical estimation of the specific nutritional contribution of a FFW project, implemented at the community level in the Ewalel and Marigat locations of the Baringo District, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. The primary objectives were to measure empirically the magnitude of the FFW contribution on the nutritional status of the participant households, and to determine the relationship between consumption patterns and domestic (local) food prices. In this research, FFW participants' consumption behavior was hypothesized to be differentiated from the non-participants in terms of their income elasticities of demand for nutrients. Also, it was hypothesized that the FFW nutritional contribution to participants was greater than the equivalent net income gains through the value of the FFW provided food items (monetary market value of provided food items). Both hypotheses are supported by the analysis.
To determine the course of this research, a two step analytical procedure was followed. First, following Lancaster's conceptual setting on the "Goods' Characteristics Theory."
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Andersson, Veronica, and Klaudia Chwaszcz. "Jag är vad jag äger : En kvalitativ studie om sociala mediers inflytande på konsumtion och identitet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35342.
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Never before have we invested so much time and money in our homes as we do today. The growing interest in home interior is partly due to an increase of commercialisation of home and interior design in various media. New opinion leaders have spread out on several levels in society as a result of social media's measureless growth and it is increasingly talked about influential influencers. Considering the increased interest in home interior and the fact that social media has become more prominent, it was interesting to study these phenomena and the connection between them. The purpose of this paper was therefore to investigate how the home is represented on social media and how this exposition is linked with consumption and identity creation for users of social media. In this study, a qualitative methodological approach has been applied in the form of a semiotic analysis of blog posts and semistructured interviews. The study has shown that when the blogger shows and distributes ideals of a home, that often symbolizes status, it shapes users' perception of how a home should look. This can further lead them to such symbolism in their consumption. The daily inspiration from the digital sphere can thus contribute to increased consumption, which further reflects the identity of individuals and how they want to be perceived by others. However, this consumption is not always clear and often does not occur directly, but may come to the surface later on. Thus, the study shows that the consumption of home interior has become an important tool for the identity of individuals. That is, both how an individual sees himself, but also how the individual wants to be perceived by others.Aldrig tidigare har vi svenskar investerat så mycket tid och pengar på våra hem som vi gör idag. Det växande heminredningsintresset beror dels på en ökad kommersiell gestaltning av hem och inredning i diverse media. Nya opinionsledare har brett ut sig på flera plan i samhället till följd av sociala mediers måttlösa framväxt och det talas alltmer om de inflytelserika influencerna. Med hänsyn till det ökade heminredningsintresset samt att sociala medier har blivit mer framträdande var det intressant att studera dessa fenomen och kopplingen mellan dem. Syftet med denna uppsats var således att undersöka hur hemmet framställs på sociala medier och hur denna framställning kopplas samman med konsumtion och identitetsskapande för användarna av sociala medier. I denna studie har det tillämpats en kvalitativ metodologisk ansats i form av en semiotisk analys av blogginlägg samt semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studien har visat att när bloggerskorna visar och sprider ideal av hemmet, som ofta symboliserar status, formar det användarnas uppfattning om hur ett hem bör se ut. Detta kan vidare leda till att användarna söker sig till sådan symbolik i sin konsumtion. Den dagliga inspirationen från den digitala sfären kan sålunda bidra till en ökad konsumtion, som vidare speglar individernas identitet och hur de vill uppfattas av andra. Dock är inte denna konsumtion alltid tydlig och sker ofta inte direkt, utan kan komma upp till ytan under en senare tid. Studien visar således att konsumtion av heminredning har blivit ett viktigt verktyg för individers identitetskonstruktion. Det vill säga, både hur en individ ser sig själv men även och hur individen vill uppfattas av andra.
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Ncetani, Nelisiwe. "Determinants of participation in beekeeping and its contribution to rural household income: the case of O. R. Tambo Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1486.
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This dissertation explores determinants and perceptions to participation in beekeeping by households’ as well as its contribution to household income. This is in a context that smallholder farmers’ participation is reported to be very low, despite several claimed benefits of beekeeping. Moreover, despite receiving substantial endorsements as a resilient climate-smart rural livelihood, off-farm, forest, non-timber diversification strategy; the uptake of beekeeping by smallholder farmers in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa still remains very low. Against this background, this study used cross-sectional survey data to gauge smallholder farmers’ perceptions and factors that influence their participation in beekeeping using a binary regression model; further, it measured the contribution of beekeeping to rural household income using a linear regression model. Descriptive statistics revealed that majority of the people from the study area have positive perceptions regarding beekeeping. Regression estimates further indicate that beekeeping is mostly conditioned by shared perceptions, institutional and socio-economic factors that are worth targeting to promote the uptake of beekeeping as a livelihood. Public policies that influence the institutional framework (extension, credit and market) in favour of beekeeping are more likely to promote participation in beekeeping activities. Also, more research on the documentation and benefits of beekeeping supported by investments targeting educational campaigns towards promoting positive attitudes and dispelling fears and myths surrounding beekeeping as an enterprise, will also promote the participation of smallholder farmers in beekeeping. Regression estimates for determinants of household income revealed a significant positive contribution of beekeeping to household income, education, gender and age. Promotion of beekeeping may therefore address household income that is worth targeting to address rural poverty. The study therefore concludes that to fully unlock the income potential of beekeeping for smallholder farmers, development agencies need to address several negative perceptions and institutional factors that affect beekeeping participation, while more research is required to quantify the claimed benefits of beekeeping, given their positive potential to promote farmers’ interests in beekeeping.
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Wilson, Daniel O. "MALE FARMERS COPING WITH LOSS OF SPOUSE: IMPACTS ON FARMING OPERATION AND FAMILY LIFE." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cld_etds/3.
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Losing a spouse is as devastating an experience anyone will ever deal with in his or her life. Research, however, shows that men have a harder and longer time coping with the loss of a spouse than women. When the widower’s profession is farming, there are no resources to specifically help that individual with their loss. The purpose of this research was to gain insight into the lives of widowed farmers with particular focus on transitions in their farming operation and their family life. Through their stories, we learn what is happening before the loss of the female spouse on the farm, during the bereavement period, and how the farmer handles the situation after the bereavement period has ended. Findings indicate that the Cooperative Extension Service can play a major role in supporting our widowed farmers as they seek a new normal for their farm operation and family life. Also, farming widowers have more stress following the loss of a spouse due to the added aspect of managing the farm and the home simultaneously after the passing of their spouse. Recommendations include further expanding spousal bereavement materials to include a section for males and in particular farming widowers.
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Becker, Michelle L. "Programs of the Highest Type: University Radio and Gender Ideals in the Midwest in Postwar America." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1628764444442284.
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Whang, Mikyoung. "Nelly Don’s 1916 pink gingham apron frock: an illustration of the middle-class American housewife’s shifting role from producer to consumer." Diss., Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8621.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design
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Nell Donnelly created a stylish, practical, affordable pink gingham apron frock in 1916, selling out her first order of 216 dresses the first morning at $1 apiece at Peck’s Dry Goods Company in Kansas City. This study investigates the forces behind the success of her dress, and finds that during the early 20th century, woman’s role became modernized, shifting from that of producer to consumer, and that clothing—in particular, the housedress—was a visible reflection of this shift. Specific attributes contributed to the success of the apron frock in design and social perspective. First, her housedress incorporated current design elements including kimono sleeves, empire waistline, waist yoke, asymmetrical front closure, and ruffle trimmings sensibly. Socially, mass advertising and mass media articles promoted fashion consciousness in women to look as pretty as those in the ad or article. As a result, integrating trendy design elements into an affordable housedress along with the growing demand for a stylish, yet practical housedress guaranteed the success of Nelly Don’s pink gingham apron frock. As such, the availability and value of the apron frock provide a vivid illustration of woman’s shifting role: its popularity as an alternative to old-fashioned Mother Hubbard housedresses demonstrates both women’s new consumer awareness as well as their growing involvement in the public sphere.
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Ratliff, Kari. "Life & Lifestyle Makeovers: The Promotion of Materialism in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1185292633.
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Vaziri, Alyssa S. "Pink and Dude Chefs: Effectiveness of an After-School Nutrition Knowledge and Culinary Skills Program for Middle School Students to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2018. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1946.
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The rate of overweight and obesity among adolescents aged 12-19 years has more than tripled since 1980, and disproportionately impacts low-income and marginalized populations. Reduction in adolescent obesity rates may result in decreased health risks, decrease healthcare costs, and increased quality of life. Effective intervention methods for adolescent participants have incorporated nutrition knowledge and culinary skill building into afterschool programs. This study examines whether building knowledge, skills, and confidence through a culinary intervention can improve adolescent participants’ choices of healthful foods through increased fruit and vegetable intake.
Pink and Dude Chefs (PDC) is an afterschool nutrition education and culinary skills program for middle-school adolescents aged 11-14 years. This project aimed to improve eating behavior in participants by increasing culinary and nutrition self-efficacy. PDC was implemented in Shandon, California from Spring 2014 to Fall 2014, and in Santa Maria, Guadalupe, and New Cuyama, California from Fall 2015 to Summer 2016. Eighty-three middle school students participated and completed surveys in the 12-lesson program that covered food safety, micro- and macronutrients, meal planning, and USDA MyPlate guidelines.
Participant fruit and vegetable consumption improved following participation. Girls’ frequency of overall fruit consumption increased from a mean of 1.8 (SD 0.9) to 2.0 (SD 1.0). Girls’ vegetable consumption increased from 1.2 (SD 0.8) to 1.5 (SD 0.9). Boys’ fruit consumption increased from 1.9 (SD 1.0) to 2.2 (SD 1.0), and boys’ vegetable consumption increased from 1.1 (SD 0.9) to 1.3 (SD 0.8).
More research is needed to evaluate the long-term effect of participation in nutrition education and culinary skills programs. If obesity prevention programs that incorporate a skill-based culinary approach continue to show promising outcomes for adolescents, larger scale efforts may contribute to decreasing the public health and economic burdens associated with obesity.
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Petronelli, Barbara Elizabeth. "“TO SECURE LITERARY CULTURE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL FEELING”:RURAL OHIO CLUBWOMEN AS STEWARDS OF LOCAL LITERACY PRACTICE,1915." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1544379283827385.
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Cacciari, Joseph. "Les ménages face aux impératifs de "transition énergétique" : des raisonnements pris entre marché, normalisation institutionnelle et références pour agir forgées au fil de la trajectoire biographique." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0280/document.
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Comment des normes de conduite hétéronomes parviennent-elles à définir la manière dont les individus organisent leur quotidien sans être perçues comme des contraintes extérieures ou arbitraires ? Comment les individus en arrivent-ils à privilégier certaines références pour agir plutôt que d’autres au fil de leur trajectoire sociale ? Les pratiques énergétiques prenant place dans l’espace domestique constituent un terrain d’analyse de ces questions particulièrement riche dans le contexte actuel d’injonction à la « transition énergétique ». Les changements de conduite attendus sont l’occasion de travaux de sciences sociales qui acceptent souvent comme allant de soi les catégories du débat public : notamment celles qui consistent à rabattre les pratiques domestiques mobilisatrices d’énergie sur des consommations. Le propos est ici de questionner ces catégories pour des ménages des classes populaires « du haut », à distance des dispositifs d’assistance prévus pour les situations de dénuement mais néanmoins menacés de difficultés avec les coûts de l’énergie. Ce travail rend compte des mécanismes de soumission au mot d’ordre économique et de la socialisation des acteurs à la mise en consommation des pratiques domestiques mobilisatrices d’énergie, les amenant dans des circonstances particulières à prêter attention à de nouveaux discours prescriptifs. Pour cela, la thèse s’appuie sur une revue critique des travaux de sciences sociales portant sur les ménages face à l’énergie, sur des monographies de groupes professionnels porteurs de discours institutionnels auprès des ménages et sur des monographies de ménages précisément situésHow do heteronomous norms of behavior succeed in defining how individuals organize their everyday lives without being perceived as external or arbitrary constraints? How do individuals come to favor certain references to act rather than others in their life's course ? Energy practices in the domestic space (heating and cooling of rooms, cooking and refrigerating food, domestic hot water, lighting, electrical appliances, etc.) constitute a particularly rich field of analysis of these questions in the current context of "energy transition". The expected changes in behavior are the occasion of social science studies that often take for granted the categories of public debate: in special, that of reducing domestic practices that mobilize energy on consumption and that which naturalizes the energy transition . The aim is here to question these categories for households of the " working classes from the upper", at a distance from the social work schemes designed for deprived situations and nevertheless threatened with difficulties with energy costs. It then attempts to account for the mechanisms of submission to the economic slogan and the socialization of the social actors to the consumption of domestic practices mobilizing energy, bringing them in particular circumstances to pay attention to new prescriptive speeches when deciding on their actions. For this purpose, the thesis is based on a critical review of the social science work on households relation to energy, on monographs of occupational groups with institutional discourses on households and on monographs of households
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ffitch, Madeline S. "Stay and Fight, a Novel." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1542290577052013.
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Kulkarni, S. K. "A study of changes in consumption patterns in selected rural markets in Sangli District." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4863.
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Besa, Delilah. "American Progressive Education, Texas Schools, and Home Economics, 1910-1957." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-8051.
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This thesis explores the Americanization efforts of educational leaders in Texas during the Progressive Era to demonstrate that reformers did not use vocational education, and specifically home economics, primarily to Americanize immigrant and ethnic minority students to become good, working-poor citizens. Through Americanization efforts in vocational curricula, reformers hoped to provide economically disadvantaged students with a practical body of knowledge and democratic values that would create healthy, economically viable communities occupied by loyal, educated American citizens. Federal legislation that promoted the development of vocational education in the first half of the twentieth century demonstrates that this way of thinking reflected national rather than regional trends. In Texas, vocational education was largely directed at a population that was predominately white and rural for the first several decades of the twentieth century. That decision by educators casts considerable doubt on assertions that they were primarily motivated by racialized thinking. Notably, home economics curricula was constructed over the framework of Americanization, and children who took such courses in rural schools received training that advocated respect for others, cooperation, an appreciation of Western culture and the value of aesthetics, efficiency and thriftiness, and good hygiene practices. The homemaking program at the South San Antonio high school in the 1944-1945 school year provides an example. Homemaking teacher Nell Kruger's curriculum reached far beyond training future housewives, waitresses and maids. She sought, in accordance with the state-mandated home economics curriculum, to provide a practical body of knowledge and to inculcate democratic values in her students. Using Texas' State Department of Education and State Board of Vocational Education bulletins, Texas Education Agency literature, federal and state laws, conference reports, and curriculum guidelines, this thesis seeks to further nuance the understanding of Americanization efforts through vocational education, specifically homemaking, during the Progressive Era in Texas by arguing that Americanization reflected an urban, middle-class perspective directed toward economically disadvantaged white students as well as immigrant and ethnic minority students.
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"Retirement consumption and time spent on home production in the transition to retirement." 2011. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894855.
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Kong, Kwok Ho."August 2011."
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.ii
摘要 --- p.iii
Acknowledgements --- p.iv
Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.4
Chapter 2.1 --- The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle --- p.4
Chapter 2.2 --- Food Expenditure and Food Consumption --- p.7
Chapter 2.3 --- Heterogeneous Impact of Retirement on Consumption Expenditure --- p.7
Chapter 3. --- Data Sources and Description --- p.10
Chapter 3.1 --- Surveys --- p.10
Chapter 3.2 --- Sample --- p.12
Chapter 4. --- Methodology --- p.16
Chapter 5. --- "Comparison of the NHAPS, ATUS, and ASEC Estimates" --- p.18
Chapter 6. --- Empirical Results-Demographic Characteristics --- p.21
Chapter 6.1 --- Male and Female Householders --- p.23
Chapter 6.2 --- Marital Status --- p.25
Chapter 6.3 --- Education --- p.27
Chapter 7. --- Empirical Results-Financial Characteristics --- p.29
Chapter 7.1 --- Housing Ownership --- p.30
Chapter 7.2 --- Interest and Dividend Income --- p.32
Chapter 8. --- Empirical Results-Dependency Status --- p.35
Chapter 9. --- Potential Bias of Using Age as an Insturment for Retirement --- p.38
Chapter 10. --- Robustness Checking --- p.40
Chapter 10.1 --- Estimation with Restricted Samples --- p.40
Chapter 10.2 --- Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Estimation --- p.41
Chapter 11. --- Conclusions --- p.43
Chapter Figure 1 --- Level Changes of Time Spent on Food Production for Household Members by Three-year Ranges --- p.46
Chapter Figure 2 --- Percentage Change of Time Spent on Food Production for Household Members by Three-year Ranges --- p.47
Chapter Table 1 --- "Descriptive Statistics of Non-retired and Retired Individuals in NHAPS, ATUS, and ATUS-ASEC" --- p.48
Chapter Table 2 --- Descriptive Statistics of Time Spent on Home Food Production (in minutes per day) of Non-retired and Retired Households --- p.49
Chapter Table 3 --- Comparison of Regression Result between the Estimation of Aguiar and Hurst (2005) and the Author's Estimation --- p.50
Chapter Table 4 --- Descriptive Statistics of ATUS Non-retired and Retired Individuals by Gender --- p.51
Chapter Table 5 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Gender --- p.52
Chapter Table 6 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Female Householders by Marital Status --- p.53
Chapter Table 7 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Male Householders by Marital Status --- p.54
Chapter Table 8 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Education Attainment --- p.55
Chapter Table 9 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Housing Ownership --- p.56
Chapter Table 10 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Interest Income and Dividend Income during the Survey Year --- p.57
Chapter Table 11 --- 2SLS Estimates of ATUS-ASEC Householders by Dependency Status during the Survey Year --- p.58
Chapter Table 12 --- Comparison of Regression Results under Full Samples and Restricted Samples --- p.59
Chapter Table 13 --- Comparison of Regression Results between the Use of 2SLS and OLS Methods --- p.60
Chapter Appendix: --- Data --- p.61
Chapter Appendix Table 1 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Marital Status --- p.62
Chapter Appendix Table 2 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Education Attainment --- p.63
Chapter Appendix Table 3 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Housing Ownership and the Sum of Interest Income and Dividend Income --- p.64
Chapter Appendix Table 4 --- Housing Ownership and Education Attainment of Individuals in 2003-2009 ATUS-ASEC --- p.65
Chapter Appendix Table 5 --- Time Spent on Home Food Production (in Minutes per Day) of Householders by Dependency Status --- p.66
References --- p.67
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"Consumption and modernity in a village in South China." 2001. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890831.
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Chow King Mun.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-144).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract (in English and Chinese) --- p.iv-v
Acknowledgements --- p.vi
Notes --- p.vii
List of Figures --- p.viii
List of Diagrams and Tables --- p.viii
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Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- The Aim of the Study
Chapter 1.2 --- The Road to Chinese Modernity
Chapter 1.3 --- Modernity and Consumption
Chapter 1.4 --- Theories of Consumption
Chapter 1.5 --- Consumption in China
Chapter 1.6 --- "A Brief Overview of the Tian Village, Zhongshan"
Chapter 1.7 --- Methodology
Chapter 1.8 --- Summary of the Chapters Making up the Thesis
Chapter 1.9 --- Significance of Study
Chapter 2. --- Tian Village and its Environment --- p.27
Chapter 2.1 --- The Xiaolan Town
Chapter 2.2 --- The Tian Village
Chapter 2.2.1 --- Background
Chapter 2.2.2 --- The Dramatic Transformation of the Village
Chapter 2.2.3 --- The Economic Activities
Chapter 2.2.4 --- Education Level
Chapter 2.2.5 --- Migrant Labourers
Chapter 2.3 --- Summary
Chapter 3. --- Aspiring to be Modern --- p.52
Chapter 3.1 --- What is Modernity?
Chapter 3.2 --- The Aspirations of Older and Younger Villagers
Chapter 3.2.1 --- The young generation
Chapter 3.2.2 --- The old generation
Chapter 3.3.3 --- The hardships of the older villagers
Chapter 3.3 --- The Government Initiatives
Chapter 3.4 --- The Hong Kong Influences
Chapter 3.5 --- The Discourses of Modernity
Chapter 3.6 --- Summary
Chapter 4. --- Striving for a Better Life --- p.78
Chapter 4.1 --- Strategies to earn money
Chapter 4.2 --- Case Study 1: Big Brother
Chapter 4.3 --- Case Study 2: Ah Ming's mother
Chapter 4.4 --- Case Study 3: AhYan
Chapter 4.5 --- Case Study 4: Mr He
Chapter 4.6 --- Summary
Chapter 5. --- Consumption and Modernity --- p.92
Chapter 5.1 --- Interpreting modernity: Consumption as a strategy
Chapter 5.1.1 --- Housing
Chapter 5.1.2 --- Food
Chapter 5.1.3 --- Transportation
Chapter 5.1.4 --- Clothes
Chapter 5.1.5 --- Consuming modernity as a daily activity
Chapter 5.2 --- Economic power and generation differences in consumption
Chapter 5.2.1 --- Mobile Phones
Chapter 5.2.2 --- Debit cards/Shopping VIP cards
Chapter 5.2.3 --- The concept of frugality
Chapter 5.3 --- Anti-consumption: the problems of social security
Chapter 5.3.1 --- Ah Han Case
Chapter 5.4 --- Summary
Chapter 6. --- Conclusion --- p.130
Appendix - List of Chinese Characters --- p.137
Bibliography --- p.139
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Espadinha, Daniel Henrique Gomes. "Planning the delivery of home-based long-term care: A mathematical programming-based tool to support routes' planning." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18725.
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The adequate planning of home-based long-term care (HBLTC) is essential in the current European setting where long-term care (LTC) demand is increasing rapidly, and where home-based care represents a potential cost-saving alternative from traditional inpatient care. Particularly, this planning should involve proper route planning to ensure visits of health professionals to patients’ homes. Nevertheless, literature in the specific area of HBLTC planning is still scarce.
Accordingly, this paper proposes a tool based on a mathematical programming model – the LTCroutes – for supporting the daily planning of routes to visit LTC patients’ homes in National Health Service-based countries. The model allows exploring the impact of considering different objectives relevant in this sector, including the minimization of costs and the maximization of service level. Patients’ preferences, traffic conditions and budget constraints are also considered in the proposed model.
To illustrate the applicability of the model, a case study based on the National Network of LTC in Portugal (RNCCI) is analysed.O planeamento adequado de cuidados continuados ao domicílio é essencial na conjuntura atual Europeia em que a procura de cuidados continuados está a aumentar rapidamente, e em que os cuidados ao domicílio representam uma alternativa com potencial de poupança de custos relativamente ao tradicional internamento hospitalar. Particularmente, é necessário haver um planeamento adequado das rotas dos profissionais de saúde às casas dos pacientes. No entanto, a literatura na área específica de planeamento de cuidados continuados ao domicílio ainda é escassa. Nesse sentido, este artigo propõe uma ferramenta baseada num modelo de programação matemática - o LTCroutes - para apoiar o planeamento diário das rotas para visitar as casas dos pacientes com necessidade de cuidados continuados em países com Serviço Nacional de Saúde. O modelo desenvolvido permite explorar o impacto de considerar diferentes objetivos relevantes neste setor, incluindo a minimização de custos e a maximização do nível de serviço. As preferências dos pacientes, condições de trânsito e restrições de orçamento também são consideradas no modelo proposto. Para ilustrar a aplicabilidade do modelo, é analisado um caso de estudo baseado na Rede Nacional de Cuidados Continuados Integrados (RNCCI) em Portugal.
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Suharno. "An Almost Ideal Demand System for Food." Doctoral thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B062-C.
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(6615803), Ashley E. Rice. "Factors Influencing Indiana Residents' Level of Interest in Engaging with Purdue University." Thesis, 2019.
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The land-grant university system was founded in the 19th century as a public means to help improve people’s everyday lives. A century and a half later, the challenges that the public faces to live a quality life are constantly changing, creating a need for the land-grant system to respond and adapt to continue to fulfill its mission. While the literature contains a wealth of conceptual papers addressing the role and mission of land-grant universities, relatively few papers could be found that reported empirical data or proposed and tested metrics for public engagement constructs. The current study sought to address this void in the literature through the investigation of factors influencing Indiana residents’ level of interest in engaging with Purdue University. Mail survey methods were used in which up to three contacts were made with adult members of 4,500 Indiana households identified through address-based sampling. Stratified random sampling was employed to ensure adequate rural household participation for other project purposes. Usable responses were received from 1,003 households representing 87 Indiana counties for a total response rate of 26%. A theoretical perspective was developed from Public Sphere Theory and the social science writings of Jurgen Habermas and Alexis de Tocqueville. Descriptive findings revealed some to moderate concerns about community and social issues such as affordable health care, violent crime, pollution and prescription drug abuse. Moderate levels of anomie, or perceived social disconnectedness, were also reported by respondents. Several items tapped respondents’ past levels of interaction with and current perceptions of Purdue University. Nearly a fifth of respondents reported interacting with Purdue University by having visited a website for news or information, followed by interacting with a Purdue University Extension professional. Regarding perceptions of Purdue University, the results of this study revealed relative consensus among respondents that Purdue University makes a positive contribution to the state of Indiana through its educational, research and outreach programs. For a majority of the perceptual items regarding Purdue University, more than one-third of the respondents neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement, suggesting some areas in which the university might improve its reputational standing with Indiana residents in the future. Nearly one-quarter to about half of the respondents indicated interest in topical areas addressed by Purdue Extension programs as well as an interest in engaging with the university. Respondents reported the highest levels of interest in free Extension programs in their local area, followed by the topics of science and technology, health and well-being, and gardening.
A predictive model of respondent interest in engaging with Purdue University was developed and tested using binary logistic regression procedures. The model was shown to be of modest utility in accounting for variance in respondent interest in engaging with Purdue University, explaining 12% to 16% of total variance. Past interaction with Purdue University, perceived level of concern for social and community issues, and highest level of education were the strongest predictors in the model.
The current research was completed in 2019 as Purdue University celebrated its 150th anniversary. Results and implications of this study provide important insight into current engagement levels, concerns and perceptions of residents within the state of Indiana, whom the university is mandated to serve. One of the study’s primary contributions is the establishment of baseline engagement data on current levels of Indiana residents’ interest in engaging with Purdue University on selected topics. Findings from this study could be of benefit to university administrators, faculty, staff and Extension professionals in assessing and improving future programming and setting strategic priorities. This study also adds to the conceptual and empirical body of literature, which may help inform future public engagement efforts at other land-grant universities. Periodic social science and public opinion research is needed to keep pace with the changing needs and perceptions of Indiana residents. Different data collection modes should be utilized to reach more audience segments and add to the growing knowledge base of public engagement.