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Satisfaction with current commuting expense as related to the relative fuel efficiency of a desired car purchase
Author(s) -
WINTER MARY,
WOLF MARY JANE SHUMARD
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1989.tb00007.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , business , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering
Although projecting the demand for cars in North America has been the subject of research for almost half a century, 1–6 increases in the price of petroleum and petroleum products during the 1970s prompted an interest in projecting the demand for fuel‐efficient cars. The purpose of this paper is to assess factors affecting the relative fuel efficiency of a desired car purchase among households with at least one individual employed outside the home. In addition to socio‐economic and demographic characteristics of the household, sex of the worker, distance to work and satisfaction with the expense involved in the journey to work are used to predict relative efficiency of a potential car purchase. The analysis is not intended to follow the lines of a traditional economic analysis. Rather, its purpose is to add other dimensions to such analyses.