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| van Kooten, G. Cornelis; Schoney, Richard A.; Hayward, Keith A.. |
| Results of a study of goal orderings of Saskatchewan farmers who participate in the province's FARMLAB Program are presented. We use the method of fuzzy pair-wise comparisons which allows the respondent to indicate a degree of preference between two alternative goal statements, thereby providing more information than in the binary case. From survey data ratio-scale scores are constructed for eight goal statements, and these are regressed on a set of farm enterprise and household characteristics and a psychological locus-of-control (or I-E) score. The empirical results indicate that goodness-of-fit measures are better than those obtained by other researchers, perhaps because a psychological measure (I-E score) is included as an explanatory variable for... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1986 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32535 |
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