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Assessing the Importance of Apple Attributes: An Agricultural Application of Conjoint Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Alberto B. Manalo
Alberto B. Manalo*
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University of New Hampshire
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Abstract

The use of conjoint analysis in assessing consumers’ preferences for attributes is demonstrated with the apple as an example. Conjoint analysis may be used to estimate the importance of attributes and attribute levels through decomposition of consumers’ ranking of alternative attribute combinations. It is shown that conjoint analysis provides results that may not be obtained from a survey where respondents are asked to directly state their assessment of the importance of attributes.

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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1990 , pp. 118 - 124
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Copyright © 1990 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The comments of an anonymous reviewer are gratefully acknowledged.

This paper is Scientific Contribution no. 1700 of the New Hampshire Experiment Station.

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