How COVID-19 changed Italian consumers' behavior.
COVID-19
Consumer behavior
Consumer spending
Health-related decisions
Socioeconomic variables
Journal
Global finance journal
ISSN: 1873-5665
Titre abrégé: Glob Financ J
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9918697480906676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Historique:
received:
22
11
2020
revised:
14
10
2021
accepted:
31
10
2021
medline:
1
2
2022
pubmed:
1
2
2022
entrez:
15
4
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic affected people's health-related choices and spending habits in Italy, the first European country to be heavily affected by the pandemic. We collected about 3000 questionnaires in May and June 2020 (that is, during the stabilization phase that followed the country's lockdown), asking questions taken from the "Survey tool and guidance: rapid, simple, flexible behavioural insights on COVID-19" issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), and correlated the responses with respondents' demographic and socioeconomic profiles. A principal component analysis (PCA) shows three main components that we label "Unusual behavior," "Precautionary spending," and "Augmented social distancing," which vary with demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38620847
doi: 10.1016/j.gfj.2021.100680
pii: S1044-0283(21)00078-8
pmc: PMC8570799
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100680Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
None.