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Thegaleesan, T.
- The Role of Education, Income and Occupation on Food Choice: A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban in Tamil Nadu, South India
Authors
1 Department of Economics, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, IN
Source
International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 5, No 12 (2016), Pagination: 1-7Abstract
A Portuguese study reveals that the low and high-income groups are feed to be similar in regard to several food groups consumption and access to education/information appears to be the key element to a better food pattern consumption. While seeing these views, this research has been made an attempt to find out the influence of three economic determinants such as Income, occupation, and education on food choice in Indian context in Rural and Urban areas in villupuram District of Tamilnadu.
Methodology:- The data is random (N=300) out of which 150 from rural and 150 from the urban area. The period of study is midyear of 2016. The Statistical tools of Regression, ANOVA,âtâ Test have been used to analyze
Results:- The co-efficient of variables shows the controversy result in rural area. In rural area, the formal occupation has influenced food choice where as in urban area it is insignificant, in Urban area, the coefficient for formal informal occupation shows that there is no impact on food choice.
Conclusion:- The inference is none of the income level and educational level influence the food choice; only the nature of occupation of the respondents influences the food choice.