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Analysis of Sales Promotion Effects on Household Purchase Behavior

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categories. But, this has to be empirically tested to answer the questi<strong>on</strong> whether<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sistencies exist or not, and, if so whether these c<strong>on</strong>sistency can be mainly explained by<br />

demographic, socio-ec<strong>on</strong>omic, and purchase process characteristics, or if they should be<br />

attributed to a deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness trait. We will do so in the next sub-secti<strong>on</strong>.<br />

7.6.1 Across Product Category Dependence<br />

In c<strong>on</strong>trast to most prior research (Ainslie and Rossi 1988 being a positive excepti<strong>on</strong>), we<br />

do not try to answer the questi<strong>on</strong> about the existence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness trait directly from<br />

household purchase behavior (or attitudinal household statements regarding their purchase<br />

behavior). Deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness is not isomorphic with promoti<strong>on</strong> utilizati<strong>on</strong>. C<strong>on</strong>sistencies in<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se across different categories can be caused by household characteristics.<br />

Based <strong>on</strong> the extensive research overview, we believe that the most important household<br />

variables are incorporated in this study. We therefore believe that we can use the error<br />

terms to make a specific statement about the existence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness trait. An errorterm<br />

in a regressi<strong>on</strong> model represents (am<strong>on</strong>g other things) the influence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> omitted<br />

variables <strong>on</strong> the dependent variables. In the analyses, the error terms represent the<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se observed, corrected for several household characteristics. If the term<br />

deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness is justified, then not incorporating deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness (or an indicator for deal<br />

pr<strong>on</strong>eness) into the category models should lead to errors at the household level that are<br />

correlated across product categories.<br />

For each category, the error terms are deduced including the same set <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

explanatory variables as used throughout the binary logistic regressi<strong>on</strong> analyses described<br />

before. The analyses were carried out in the corresp<strong>on</strong>ding subset <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the data, <strong>on</strong>ly those<br />

records which dealt with each specific product category. Table 7.24 c<strong>on</strong>tains the<br />

correlati<strong>on</strong> coefficients found between the error terms <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> each product category. The error<br />

terms are computed by taking the average error term per household per product category.<br />

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