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    1. Development of a food safety attitude and practice questionnaire for Iranian consumers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Moghaddam, Atefeh Fooladi (author), Khoshnevisan, Farnaz (author), Bondarianzadeh, Dolly (author), Mohammadi, Mehrdad (author), and Abkenar, Hooman Bakhshandeh (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2014
    Published:
    Iran
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05831
    Journal Title:
    International Journal of Consumer Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    38 : 367-373

    2. Questionnaire vs. social media analysis - case study of organic food

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Pilar, Ladislav (author), Kvasnickova, Lucie (author), Gresham, George (author), Polakova, Jana (author), Rojik, Stanislav (author), and Petkov, Rosen (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018-09-30
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10283
    Journal Title:
    Agris On-line Papers in Economics and Informatics
    Journal Title Details:
    10(3) : 93-101
    Notes:
    via online journal, The amount of European farm acreage devoted to organic foods has been increasing each year over the past three decades, as farmers strive to meet consumer demand for these products. To understand what factors drive this demand, researchers have focused on the end customers' perception of organic food and their motivations to purchase it. The standard research methods are questionnaires and literature review; however, these tend to be expensive, time consuming, or involve work with secondary data. This paper compares 14 studies carried out using standard research methods with the results of a social network analysis based on 344,231 posts by 73,380 Instagram users. The result of the comparison shows that in the case of organic food, the characteristic of "healthy" is the most important one to customers, both based on questionnaire surveys and the social network analysis. Moreover, based on these two analyses, 4 key areas can be identified as factors that are important to customers buying organic food: (1) health consciousness, (2) ecological motives, (3) tasty and (4) hedonism. As the results indicate, social network analysis can be considered a method with a high potential for gaining a greater insight into customers' perceptions.