Green decisions : demographics and consumer understanding of environmental labels
D`Souza, Clare, Taghian, Mehdi, Lamb, Peter and Peretiatkos, Roman 2007, Green decisions : demographics and consumer understanding of environmental labels, International journal of consumer studies, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 371-376, doi: 10.1111/j.1470-6431.2006.00567.x.
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Green decisions : demographics and consumer understanding of environmental labels
This research examined the demographic profiles of Australian green consumers in relation to their satisfaction of environmental labelling. It examined consumers’ understanding of labelling and empirically investigated the association of demographic profile of consumers with their attitudes towards such labels. The results indicated that some of the demographic variables were significant, which is largely consistent with earlier findings by other researchers in this area. Label dissatisfaction was higher in the older and middle age respondents. However, some respondents disagreed that labels were accurate while commenting that labels were easy to understand. The key issue arising from the findings is that in order to provide perception of accuracy in labels, it is an option to use Type I or Type III labelling on products. These labels are, arguably, more credible because they are endorsed by third party labelling experts. This would come at a cost and for green products that use third party labelling, they will also have to bear in mind to keep the prices competitive.
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