An Empirical Investigation of Cultural Factors and Consumption Patterns Correlates in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study investigated the influence of cultural factors such as customs, beliefs and values on the consumptionpatterns of chewing sticks, traditional wears, marriage apparels and burial rites in the South-South Geopoliticalzone of Nigeria. 480 copies of questionnaire were developed and administered amongst adults of 4 randomlyselected riverine Local Government Areas (LGAs) of each state of Cross River, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom.Specifically, each state surveyed was rated equal as well as the LGAs and so, 160 and 40 respondents wererespectively surveyed from each state and each LGA. The data were analyzed based on 436 returns rate usingsimple percentages and Chi-square test statistic. However the findings showed that the interaction betweencultural factors and consumption patterns in the zone, though with differing values, is statistically significant.Therefore, we conclude that a fair grasp of the strength of interaction between these variables and consumptionrequires studying them separately and not holistically. Finally, the study implied among others that since culturestrongly correlates with a firm’s financial performance, market orientation, and market positioning, its variablesmust not be taken for granted, rather they should be studied, identified, monitored, manipulated (where possible),and adapted to, in order to avoid threats they pose, and take advantage of opportunities they offer since strategicmarketing decisions in our ever turbulent environments are often based on them.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".