Consumer Preference and Willingness-To-Pay for Locally Produced, Organic Food: A Stated Choice Approach
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study investigates Canadian consumers' preferences for organic and locally produced processed foods. The analysis is based on three choice experiments, one for pork tenderloin, one for whole grain bread and one for cheddar cheese, and implemented through an internet based survey. The choice experiments address two important research questions. First, what food attributes do Canadians associate with when they purchase locally produced organic foods? Second, which food attributes command a higher premium? Results from conditional logit regression models suggests that there is a disutility associated with food mileage, where respondents were willing to pay a premium of $0.00061 per kilometer per loaf of whole grain bread, $0.00664 per kilometer per kilogram of pork tenderloin and $0.00937 per kilometer per kilogram of cheddar cheese respectively. Respondents were also willing to pay a premium for the authentication of organic. More specifically, respondents are willing to pay a premium for certified organic whole grain bread ($0.076/loaf), certified organic pork tenderloin ($0.8299/kg) and certified organic cheddar cheese ($0.3381/kg).
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 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".