偏好异质性约束下食品追溯标签信任对消费者支付意愿的影响——以猪肉产品为例
Impacts of consumers’ trust in traceable food labels on consumers’ willingness to pay under preference heterogeneity constraints: A case study of pork products
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摘要: 食品可追溯体系有助于食品质量安全问题的解决,追溯标签作为辨别是否可追溯食品的主要手段,消费者对追溯标签的信任水平及其对消费者支付意愿的影响值得特别关注。基于西安市的实地调研,依据消费者购买决策过程模型,利用假想价值评估法并通过构建二元Logit模型,研究偏好异质性约束下猪肉追溯标签信任对消费者可追溯猪肉支付意愿的影响。结果表明,消费者的猪肉偏好可分为质量安全偏好型、高品质偏好型和廉价偏好型,在质量安全偏好下,猪肉追溯标签信任水平显著影响消费者的支付意愿,而在其他偏好下,猪肉追溯标签信任水平的影响则并不显著;质量安全偏好型和其他偏好类型消费者对可追溯猪肉的平均支付意愿分别为43.64元/kg和40.40元/kg。最后提出了政府应加大可追溯猪肉宣传力度、提高可追溯体系覆盖面和公众参与度,企业应自觉维护可追溯猪肉市场秩序、努力扩大可追溯猪肉市场份额,消费者应努力提高自身的食品追溯意识和认知等方面的政策建议。Abstract: Food traceability system contributes to solve the problem of food quality and safety. Traceable food label is a major means to identify the traceability food. Therefore the level of consumers’ trust in traceable food label and its impacts on consumers’ willingness to pay deserve more attention. Using the consumer survey data in Xi’an, applying consumer decision process model, contingent valuation method and binary logit model, this paper examined the impacts of consumers’ trust in traceable food label on consumers’ willingness to pay under preference heterogeneity constraints. Results show that 1) consumers’ preferences can be divided into food safety, high-quality, and low price; 2) under the food safety preference, level of trust in traceable pork label has a significant influence on consumers’ willingness to pay; 3) under the other preferences, the influence of trust level is not significant. Empirical analysis also indicates that the average willingness to pay for pork with traceable label in food safety preference and other preferences are 43.64 yuan/kg and 40.40 yuan/kg respectively. Based on the research, it is suggested that the government should initiate a propaganda for traceable pork and improve the traceability system coverage and public participation. From enterprises’ perspective, they should consciously maintain traceable pork market order and make great efforts to expand the market share. For consumers, they should try to improve their consciousness and cognition of food traceability.