@article{Bai:118535,
      recid = {118535},
      author = {Bai, Junfei and Wahl, Thomas I. and McCluskey, Jill J.},
      title = {Fluid milk consumption in urban Qingdao, China},
      journal = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2008},
      number = {428-2016-27682},
      pages = {15},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {This study relates the social-demographic characteristics  of urban Chinese consumers
to their consumption of fluid  milk. A Tobit model is estimated drawing on  individual
consumer survey data collected in urban Qingdao  in China in 2005. The major results
of this study indicate  that fluid milk consumption in urban Qingdao is much  higher
compared to China’s national level. The effect of  increased income on milk consumption
is positive, as  expected. The expansion of modern food retailers also  appears to play a
positive role by facilitating consumers’  fluid milk consumption and influencing their
food shopping  patterns. The young and old consume significantly more  fluid milk
than the middle-aged. Health consciousness of  the elderly and the openness of youth
to new foods appear  to be fuelling these consumption patterns. If the findings  of this
study apply to other urban regions in China, then  as urbanisation continues so also
will the trend of  increasing fluid milk consumption in China.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/118535},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.118535},
}