Discrete choice experiments in the analysis of consumers’ preferences for finfish products: A systematic literature review

Cantillo, Javier; Martı́n, Juan Carlos; Román, Concepción

doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.103952

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“…A study found that freshness was the most important attribute for farmed seabream consumption in Portugal [ 62 ], while another study in Europe found that one of the most important reasons for buying local and European products was its greater freshness [ 71 ]. This preference for fresh products implies that efforts should be made to optimize the supply chain for fisheries and aquaculture to ensure that more fresh products are marketed [ 72 ]. However, not knowing how to evaluate if the fish is fresh or not can be a barrier to its consumption [ 56 ], which is why marketing campaigns should provide a guide for consumers in the assessment of freshness of products.…”

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A Best–Worst Measure of Attitudes toward Buying Seabream and Seabass Products: An Application to the Island of Gran Canaria

Cantillo

Martı́n

Román

2021

Foods

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Attitudes are important key drivers that affect consumers’ seafood consumption. The present investigation used a best–worst scaling approach to measure the level of importance and satisfaction of consumers’ attitudes towards the purchase of seabream and seabass in Gran Canaria (Spain). The investigation also compared the results of the best–worst scaling (BWS) approach with those of the traditional Likert-scale method and offers a different perspective of the results using an Importance–Satisfaction Analysis (ISA). The results indicate that the most important attributes concerned the hygiene and safety of the product, the health benefits, the freshness, the taste and the nutrients. At the same time, these attributes were ranked as those which satisfied consumers the most. However, some of the results obtained from the methodologies differed. The results suggest that, in the Likert-scale task, respondents might be overstating the importance and satisfaction of the attributes; while in the BWS, consumers were forced to evaluate a trade-off in the selection of the best and worst attributes in each scenario, so the task impeded, in principle, to define every attribute as very important and providing a high satisfaction. As a result, we consider that BWS offers more reliable and clearer results than traditional Likert-scale experiments.

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A Best–Worst Measure of Attitudes toward Buying Seabream and Seabass Products: An Application to the Island of Gran Canaria

Cantillo

Martı́n

Román

2021

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“…In recent years, the Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) methodology became among the stated preference methods (Brown, 2003), one of the most widely used for the analysis of consumers' preferences of food products (Van Loo et al, 2011;Cantillo et al, 2020;Louviere et al, 2000;Ortega et al, 2011;Gracia, 2014;Marian et al, 2014).…”

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Rural sustainability and food choice: the effect of territorial characteristics on the consumers’ preferences for organic lentils

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The importance of pulse cultivation and consumption is recognized by the scientific community in terms of human nutrition, food security, biodiversity and a valid substitute for animal protein. In some marginal areas, pulse cultivation represents also a protection against the abandonment of agricultural land, the preservation of traditional landscape and the maintenance of natural environments, besides contributing to the safeguard of traditional gastronomy and culture.This study explores how some characteristics connected with rural sustainability, like the preservation of the traditional rural landscape, production area in a Natura 2000 Site of Community Importance (SCI) and EU quality labels (PDO and PGI), might influence organic consumers’ choice of lentils. Data were collected in the Umbria region (Italy) in 2014 by interviewing 213 consumers’ members of Organic Solidarity Purchase Groups (O-SPGs). The Discrete Choice Experiment methodology was used, and three different models (Multinomial Logit Model (MNL), Mixed Logit Model (RPL) and Endogenous Attribute Attendance (EAA)) were applied to verify the reliability of the estimates. Attribute non-attendance (ANA) behaviour was taken into account. Results reveal that the presence of ANA had an impact on both the relative importance of the estimated attributes and the magnitude of the estimated mean WTP. Therefore, this study suggests that WTP mean estimates should be considered with caution for marketing purposes if ANA is not considered. Looking at pulses, the results help to understand the importance in monetary terms of the relationship between lentil choice and rural sustainability.

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“…The theory of binary logit model is fully explained in several texts (Collett, 2003;Allison, 2012;Stokes et al, 2012;Agresti, 2013;Hosmer and Lemeshowm, 2013). There are many example about use of logit model in literature (Jaffry et al, 2004;Br ecard et al, 2012b;Stefani et al, 2012;Mauracher et al, 2013;Carlucci et al, 2015;Cantillo et al, 2020), a multivariate binary logit was chosen because it was easily interpretable and it fitted well to our data. The independent variables that were considered in both model were socio-demographic variables and consumer opinion variables associated with some attributes in relation to fresh caught and farmed fish.…”

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The assessment of the attitude of Sicilian consumers towards wild and farmed seafood products – a sample survey

Allegro

Calagna

Monaco

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PurposeThe purpose of the paper was to know and evaluate consumption, preferences and the knowledge of labelling legislation about wild and farmed seafood products.Design/methodology/approachA sample survey on Sicilian families was conducted through a direct interviews between October 2015 and October 2016 to study the attitudes of Sicilian consumers towards wild and farmed fish and seafood products. A stratified two-stage sampling design was chosen with variable probability of inclusion of the units of first stage and 1,700 subjects were interviewed.FindingsThe results obtained showed that the 69.4% of respondent ate fresh fish at least once a week and the 86% of respondents consumed aquaculture products at least once a month. Also, the 77.3% of respondents did not know the current legislation on the labelling. Multiple correspondence analysis allowed to identified three profiles of Sicilian families and binary logit model was used to examine the factors that influenced different frequency of fresh fish consumption in general and farmed seafood products in particular.Research limitations/implicationsExtending the research throughout the Italian territory would have allowed further comparisons at the national level.Practical implicationsThe research provides useful information on Sicilian consumers that could be used by policymakers and by marketing communications company.Social implicationsThis research, on a restricted group of European consumers (Sicilian), characterised by living in an island, reinforce the knowledge regarding seafood consumers.Originality/valueThis study used a probabilistic sampling design and a face-to-face questionnaire which produce results more robust in compare to surveys used more frequently such as non-probabilistic sampling design.

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Discrete choice experiments in the analysis of consumers’ preferences for finfish products: A systematic literature review

Cited by 56 publications

References 87 publications

A Best–Worst Measure of Attitudes toward Buying Seabream and Seabass Products: An Application to the Island of Gran Canaria

A Best–Worst Measure of Attitudes toward Buying Seabream and Seabass Products: An Application to the Island of Gran Canaria

Rural sustainability and food choice: the effect of territorial characteristics on the consumers’ preferences for organic lentils

The assessment of the attitude of Sicilian consumers towards wild and farmed seafood products – a sample survey

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