Meanings of Food: US, China, and India

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Elzbieta Lepkowska-White, Skidmore College

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Clean-data-for-archiving.sav application/x-spss-sav 99.7 KB 07/11/2025 06:10:AM
Methodology excerpt.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 21.3 KB 07/11/2025 06:28:AM
Survey Questions mapped to Variables.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 11.5 KB 07/11/2025 06:20:AM

Project Citation: 

Lepkowska-White, Elzbieta. Meanings of Food:  US, China, and India. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-07-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E235781V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This study explores the multifaceted meanings of food and how they vary across the United States, China, and India. The research examines self-identity, social, and cultural dimensions of food and measures them using the FOODSCAPE scale. An online survey was used to gather data and MANCOVA analysis found that meanings associated with food vary between countries but many patterns emerged. We have deposited clean data in SPSS format, an Excel table mapping the survey questions to the SPSS variables, and the methodology section of the paper.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Food; food preferences; marketing
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage USA, China, India
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Collection in the US and India was done using Amazon MTurk.  Workers were compensated for filling out the survey, regardless of whether their responses were used.  In China, where MTurk is not available, we used a snowball survey methods.  The questionnaire was translated into Chinese (Mandarin) by a co-author who is a native speaker.


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