Pet Goods Consumption in Polish Households

• Authors: Natalia Gromek , Jolanta Perek-Białas

Title variants

PL

Konsumpcja dóbr dla zwierząt wśród polskich gospodarstw domowych

Abstracts

PL

Niniejszy artykuł stanowi rozszerzenie rozważań Beckera i Leibensteina na temat rodziny, koncentrując się na dodatkowym członku gospodarstwa domowego (zwierzęciu domowym) w analizie konsumpcji. Praca wykorzystuje po raz pierwszy podejście analityczne do badania konsumpcji dóbr dla zwierząt w odniesieniu do teorii mikroekonomicznych na podstawie polskich danych zastanych. Przeanalizowano charakterystyki gospodarstw domowych, które wpływają na wydatki na produkty dla zwierząt domowych. W tym celu wykorzystano Polskie Badania Budżetów Gospodarstw Domowych z 2018 roku. Wyniki modeli regresji logistycznej sugerują, że grupa społeczno-ekonomiczna gospodarstwa domowego, miejsce zamieszkania, dziecko w gospodarstwie domowym oraz to, czy gospodarstwo wynajmuje dom/mieszkanie, mają wpływ na określenie prawdopodobieństwa posiadania zwierzęcia domowego wśród polskich gospodarstw domowych. Ponadto przeprowadzono analizę interakcji między istotnymi zmiennymi. Więź emocjonalna pomiędzy właścicielem zwierzęcia a pupilem nie mogła zostać uwzględniona w analizie, co stanowi jej główne ograniczenie. Pomimo to praca jest pionierska, gdyż pokazuje ilościowe podejście do ekonomii gospodarstwa domowego, które podkreśla potrzebę rozszerzenia ekonomicznych teorii rodziny Beckera i Leibensteina o nowego członka – zwierzę domowe.

EN

This paper expands the considerations of Becker's and Leibenstein's family theories with a focus on the additional member of the household (pet/animal) in the analysis of consumption. It is the first analytical approach regarding pet goods consumption with references to microeconomic theories based on Polish data. The study analyses the households' characteristics that have an impact on expenditure on pet goods. This article used the Polish Household Budget Surveys for 2018. The findings from the logistic regression models suggest that the household's socio-economic group, place of living, children in household and whether the household rents the flat/accommodation impact on determining the probability of owning a pet among Polish house-holds; analyses of interactions between significant variables were also conducted. However, the human-animal bond could not be included in analysis, which is a limitation, the overall work is pioneering, as it shows the quantitative approach to household economy that highlights the need to elaborate the economic family theories of Becker and Leibenstein by a new family member - a pet.

Keywords

EN

pet ownership; consumption expenditures; economics of the household

PL

posiadanie zwierząt domowych; wydatki konsumpcyjne; ekonomia gospodarstwa domowego

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Econometrics. Ekonometria. Advances in Applied Data Analytics
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1-21

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Natalia Gromek

• Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis, Warsaw, Poland

author

Jolanta Perek-Białas

• Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15611/eada.2022.3.01

Biblioteka Nauki

2138983