Traditional and Non-Traditional Explanations of Food Consumption: The Case of Beef

Changes in the consumption of many foods, particularly beef, underlie the recent interest in isolating factors explaining these trends. This study focuses on three orienting explanations for differential beef consumption--microeconomic, social structural, and risk reduction perspectives. Consumption is defined by past and anticipated future utilization of beef, as well as present beef consumption relative to possible substitutes. While the microeconomic model is the most useful for isolating an individual\u27s beef intake, it is clear that consumption behavior is dependent on more than income and supply factors. Social structural and risk reduction perspectives increase by 83 percent the R² found through inclusion of economic variables alone. Wagner\u27s criteria for examining the complementarity of theoretical perspectives, including their similarity in predicting behavioral outcomes, was applied to the three consumption explanations. Disparate outcomes are observed in projections of future beef consumption using the microeconomic explanation relative to social structural and risk reduction perspectives

An analysis of socioeconomic diversity in Texas metropolitan residential areas

Almost without exception, students of urban stratification have held that the residential area is highly segregated along class lines. The modal characteristics of an area have been the major focus-as represented by median family income, median owner value, or some other measure of central tendency-with little emphasis placed on the diversity existent within such groupings. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to develop an understanding of the extent of socioeconomic mixing or variation within urban residential areas. The major foci of the dissertation are: (1) the determination of appropriate statistical measures of diversity; (2) an examination of residential trends in regard to socioeconomic mixing; (3) the determination of overlap among measures of social status variation in residential areas; and (4) an evaluation of the attributes which aid in explaining residential heterogeneity. As no previous attempts to measure diversity within residential areas were found, twelve alternative techniques were assessed, the Index of Qualitative Variation was round to be the most appropriate measure of diversity for discrete data, such as occupational mixing. A measure that was applied to continuous or interval-level rate

An analysis of socioeconomic diversity in Texas metropolitan residential areas

Almost without exception, students of urban stratification have held that the residential area is highly segregated along class lines. The modal characteristics of an area have been the major focus-as represented by median family income, median owner value, or some other measure of central tendency-with little emphasis placed on the diversity existent within such groupings. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to develop an understanding of the extent of socioeconomic mixing or variation within urban residential areas. The major foci of the dissertation are: (1) the determination of appropriate statistical measures of diversity; (2) an examination of residential trends in regard to socioeconomic mixing; (3) the determination of overlap among measures of social status variation in residential areas; and (4) an evaluation of the attributes which aid in explaining residential heterogeneity. As no previous attempts to measure diversity within residential areas were found, twelve alternative techniques were assessed, the Index of Qualitative Variation was round to be the most appropriate measure of diversity for discrete data, such as occupational mixing. A measure that was applied to continuous or interval-level rate

Public understanding of traffic control devices in Texas. Final report.

Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Transportation Planning Division, AustinFederal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.Mode of access: Internet.Author corporate affiliation: Texas Transportation Institute, College StationReport covers the period Sept 1977-Nov 1978Subject code: HBSubject code: PDESubject code: QFB*EOSubject code: WT