Consumer preferences for household water treatment products in Andhra Pradesh, India

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 738-746

  Poulos, Christine ^a   Yang, Jui Chen ^a   Patil, Sumeet R ^b   Pattanayak, Subhrendu ^c   Wood, Siri ^b   Goodyear, Lorelei ^b   Gonzalez, Juan Marcos ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b NEERMAN ^*  (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Discrete choice experiment; Formative research; In home water treatment; India; Safe drinking water; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT SAFETY; PURCHASING; SOCIAL MARKETING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; WATER PURIFICATION;

ANDHRA PRADESH; INDIA;

EID: 84862607009     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.059     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Alemu M.H., Mørkbak M.R., Olsen S.B., Jensen C.L. Attending to the reasons for attribute non-attendance in choice experiments 2011, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Food and Resource Economics.
2. Ashraf N., Berry J., Shapiro J.M. Can higher prices stimulate product use? Evidence from a field experiment in Zambia. American Economic Review 2010, 100:2383-2413.
3. Bech M., Kjaer T., Lauridsen J. Does the number of choice sets matter? Results from a web survey applying a discrete choice experiment. Health Economics 2011, 20:273-286.
4. Brown D.S., Johnson F.R., Poulos C., Messonnier M.L. Mothers' preferences and willingness to pay for vaccinating daughters against human papillomavirus. Vaccine 2010, 28:1702-1708.
5. Cameron T.A., DeShazo J.R. Differential attention to attributes in utility-theoretic choice models. Journal of Choice Modeling 2008, 3(3):73-115.
6. Campbell, D., Lorimer, V., Aravena, C., & Hutchinson, G. (2010). Attribute processing in environmental choice analysis: Implications for willingness to pay. Agricultural Economics Society Annual Conference. Edinburgh.
7. Clasen T.F., Brown J., Collin S., Suntura O., Cairncross S. Reducing diarrhea through the use of household-based ceramic water filters: a randomized, controlled trial in rural bolivia. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2004, 70:651-657.
8. Clasen T., Roberts I., Rabie T., Schmidt W., Cairncross S. Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, 3:CD004794.
9. Cook J., Whittington D., Canh D.G., Johnson F.R., Nyamete A. Reliability of stated preferences for cholera and typhoid vaccines with time to think in Hue, Vietnam. Economic Inquiry 2007, 45:100-114.
10. Fewtrell L., Kaufmann R.B., Kay D., Enanoria W., Haller L., Colford J.M. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infectious Diseases 2005, 5:42-52.
11. Gunatilake H., Yang J.C., Pattanayak S.K., van den Berg C. An assessment of demand for improved household water supply in South-West Sri Lanka. Environmental valuation in South Asia 2011, 444-473. Cambridge University Press. A.K. Enamul Haque, M.N. Murty, P. Shyamsundar (Eds.).
12. Harris J. Challenges to the commercial viability of point-of-use (POU) water treatment systems in low-income settings 2005, Oxford Univeristy.
13. Hensher D.A., Rose J.M., Greene W.H. Applied choice analysis: A primer 2005, Cambridge University Press.
14. Hensher D.A., Rose J.M., Greene W.H. Combining RP and SP data: biases in using the nested logit 'trick' - contrasts with flexible mixed logit incorporating panel and scale effects. Journal of Transport Geography 2008, 16:126-133.
15. Hurlimann A., McKay J. Urban Australians using recycled water for domestic non-potable use-an evaluation of the attributes price, saltiness, colour and odour using conjoint analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 2007, 83:93-104.
16. Johnson F., Kanninen B., Bingham M., Özdemir S. Experimental design for stated-choice studies. Valuing environmental amenities using stated choice studies 2007, 159-202. Springer, Netherlands. B.J. Kanninen (Ed.).
17. Johnson F.R., Manjunath R., Mansfield C.A., Clayton L.J., Hoerger T.J., Zhang P. High-risk individuals' willingness to pay for diabetes risk-reduction programs. Diabetes Care 2006, 29:1351-1356.
18. Kanyoka P., Farolfi S., Morardet S. Households' preferences and willingness to pay for multiple use water services in rural areas of South Africa: an analysis based on choice modelling. Water Sa 2008, 34:715-723.
19. Kotler P., Lee N. Social marketing: Influencing behaviors for good 2008, Sage Publications, Los Angeles.
20. Krótki K.P., Population Services International.Research, D Monitoring tools for social marketing projects: Guidelines for survey sampling 1998, Research Division, Population Services International, Washington, D.C.
21. Louviere J.J., Hensher D.A., Swait J.D. Stated choice methods analysis and applications 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York, NY, USA.
22. Luby S.P., Mendoza C., Keswick B.H., Chiller T.M., Hoekstra R.M. Difficulties in bringing point-of-use water treatment to scale in rural Guatemala. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2008, 78:382-387.
23. Maddala T., Phillips K.A., Reed Johnson F. An experiment on simplifying conjoint analysis designs for measuring preferences. Health Economics 2003, 12:1035-1047.
24. Mansfield C., Phaneuf D.J., Johnson F.R., Yang J.C., Beach R. Preferences for public lands management under competing uses: the case of Yellowstone National Park. Land Economics 2008, 84:282-305.
25. Olembo L., Kaona F., Tuba M., Burnham G. Safe water systems: An evaluation of the Zambia CLORIN program 2004.
26. Pattanayak S.K., Pfaff A. Behavior, environment, and health in developing countries: evaluation and valuation. Annual Review of Resource Economics 2009, 1:183-217.
27. Pattanayak S.K., Poulos C., Yang J.C., Patil S.R., Wendland K.J. Of taps and toilets: quasi-experimental protocol for evaluating community-demand-driven projects. Journal of Water and Health 2009, 7:434-451.
28. Pattanayak S.K., Yang J.C., Dickinson K.L., Poulos C., Patil S.R., Mallick R.K., et al. Shame or subsidy revisited: social mobilization for sanitation in Orissa, India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2009, 87:580-587.
29. Pattanayak S.K., Yang J.C., Whittington D., Kumar K.C.B. Coping with unreliable public water supplies: averting expenditures by households in Kathmandu, Nepal. Water Resources Research 2005, 41.
30. Poulos C., Yang J.C., Levin C., Minh H.V., Giang K.B., Nguyen D. Mothers' preferences and willingness to pay for HPV vaccines in Vinh Long Province, Vietnam. Social Science & Medicine 2011, 73:226-234.
31. Quick R.E., Kimura A., Thevos A., Tembo M., Shamputa I., Hutwagner L., et al. Diarrhea prevention through household-level water disinfection and safe storage in Zambia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2002, 66:584-589.
32. Ryan M. Using conjoint analysis to take account of patient preferences and go beyond health outcomes: an application to in vitro fertilisation. Social Science & Medicine 1999, 48:535-546.
33. Scarpa R., Gilbride T.J., Campbell D., Hensher D.A. Modelling attribute non-attendance in choice experiments for rural landscape valuation. European Review of Agricultural Economics 2009, 36:151-174.
34. Scarpa R., Thiene M., Hensher D.A. Monitoring choice task attribute attendance in nonmarket valuation of multiple park management services: does it matter?. Land Economics 2010, 86:817-839.
35. Snowball J.D., Willis K.G., Jeurissen C. Willingness to pay for water service improvements in middle-income urban households in South Africa: a stated choice analysis. South African Journal of Economics 2009, 76:705-720.
36. Supply, W.U.J.W., Sanitation Monitoring, P Water for life making it happen 2005, World Health Organization: UNICEF, Geneva, Switzerland.
37. Swait J., Adamowicz W. The influence of task complexity on consumer choice: a latent class model of decision strategy switching. Journal of Consumer Research 2001, 28:135-148.
38. Whittington D. Administering contingent valuation surveys in developing countries. World Development 1998, 26(1):21-30.
39. WHO/UNICEF Joint Water Supply and Sanitation Monitoring Programme, World Health Organization, UNICEF Progress on drinking water and sanitation: Special focus on sanitation 2008, UNICEF; World Health Organization, New York, NY Geneva.
40. Yang J.-C., Pattanayak S.K., Johnson F.R., Mansfield C.A., Jones K.M. Unpackaging demand for water service quality: Evidence from conjoint surveys in Sri Lanka 2006, World Bank, Energy and Water Dept., Water and Sanitation Division, Washington, D.C.
41. Yildizbayrak B., Moschos N., Tamar T., Le tallec Y. Distribution of arsenic biosand filters in rural Nepal 2004, MIT Sloan School of Management Report.
42. Zwerina K., Huber J., Kuhfeld W.F. A general method for constructing efficient choice designs 1996, SAS Working Paper.