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| Title: | AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO THE EVALUATION OF GOAL HIERARCHIES AMONG FARMERS |
| Authors: | van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Schoney, Richard A.
Hayward, Keith A. |
| Issue Date: | 1986-07 |
| Abstract: | Results of a study of goal orderings of Saskatchewan farmers who participate in the province's FARMLAB Program are presented. We use the method of fuzzy pair-wise comparisons which allows the respondent to indicate a degree of preference between two alternative goal statements, thereby providing more information than in the binary case. From survey data ratio-scale scores are constructed for eight goal statements, and these are regressed on a set of farm enterprise and household characteristics and a psychological locus-of-control (or I-E) score. The empirical results indicate that goodness-of-fit measures are better than those obtained by other researchers, perhaps because a psychological measure (I-E score) is included as an explanatory variable for goal orderings. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/32535 |
| Institution/Association: | Western Journal of Agricultural Economics>Volume 11, Number 01, July 1986 |
| Total Pages: | 10 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 40 |
| To Page: | 49 |
| Collections: | Volume 11, Number 01, July 1986
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