Table 3 Descriptive statistics and variable definition
From: Labeling food safety attributes: to inform or not to inform?
Variable | Description | Mean | Std. Dev. |
|---|---|---|---|
Attitudes, knowledge, and opinion | |||
Personal health issues | Food purchasing decision based on health issues, 1 = never to 4 = always | 2.81 | 0.85 |
Food labels | Food purchasing decision based on food labels, 1 = never to 4 = always | 2.85 | 0.81 |
Read labels | Frequency of reading food labels, 1 = never to 4 = always | 2.95 | 0.80 |
Knowledge vaccines | Knowledge of animal vaccines, 1 = nothing to 4 = a great deal | 2.33 | 0.95 |
Accept vaccines | Acceptance of animal vaccines, 1 = totally unacceptable to 5 = totally acceptable | 3.09 | 1.12 |
Burgers cooked | Preference of cooking beef burgers, 1 = rare to 4 = well done | 3.07 | 0.81 |
Opinion about the government’s role | |||
Label vaccines | Meat from vaccinated cattle should be labeled, 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree | 3.91 | 1.11 |
Ensure safety | Government should ensure safety of food, 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree | 4.14 | 1.13 |
Mandate vaccines | Government should mandate the use of animal vaccines, 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree | 3.34 | 1.24 |
Demographics | |||
Primary shopper | 1 if subject does most of household grocery shopping, 0 otherwise | 0.93 | 0.26 |
Children at home | 1 if subject lives with children under 18 years of age, 0 otherwise | 0.38 | 0.49 |
College | 1 if subject has some college education or higher, 0 otherwise | 0.82 | 0.38 |
Male | 1 if subject is male, 0 female | 0.40 | 0.49 |
White | 1 if subject’s ethnicity is white, 0 otherwise | 0.71 | 0.45 |
Income | Household income, in thousands | 57.32 | 51.13 |
Age | Age in years | 46.49 | 16.66 |