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Determinants considered by Polish seniors when purchasing food and some durable goods
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Zalega, Tomasz
The ageing of societies is a commonplace process. It accompanies the development of the world population, although with different intensity. Age structures undergo transformations because of quantitative and qualitative changes affecting the course of demographic processes such as fertility, mortality, and migration, which are explained by general laws formulated by demographic transition theory. Moreover, human life expectancy is extended by continuing socio-economic changes, increasingly fast technological progress, rising living standard of populations, and advances and achievements of medicine. As a result, the number of elderly people grows faster than the number of births. Elderly persons are increasingly often perceived as a desirable and appreciated group of customers. They are important not only as consumers, but also as an object of research. The increasing proportion of elderly consumers and their economic emancipation have a significant effect on both the level and structure of consumption. The aim of the article is to identify the shopping behaviours of elderly people in terms of consumer decision making. A short introduction is followed by part one of the article, which explains the notion of consumer behaviours and presents their major determinants. In part two, after the research methodology and the selection of the sample are discussed, the key factors affecting the purchases of food articles and selected market goods, alternative consumer trends, and places where older persons do their shopping are analysed.
The allocation of participatory budgeting funds within the context of population ageing and social inequalities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2020) Wetoszka, Piotr
In Brazil in the late 1980s, participatory budgeting was introduced to help develop deprived neighbourhoods. Modern European cities must face environmental and social threats that cause intra-urban inequalities to grow, especially with respect to the elderly. Local governments are urged to reformulate their policy agendas to withstand these trends. Is participatory budgeting not becoming a threat to tackling these issues rather than a solution as it originally was? To address this question, the intra-urban concentration of funds must be investigated. Do neighbourhoods with a higher share of the elderly – less politically active yet emotionally bound to their surroundings – tend to get less funding, as the theory of elite capture could suggest? While this question has been discussed in literature, neither the intra-urban age composition nor the specificity of Polish participatory budgets was considered. The overall goal of the study was to investigate the relationship between the age structure of neighbourhoods in Wrocław and their performance in participatory budgeting editions run between 2016–2017. By means of clustering and multiple correspondence analysis, a typical “winner” of the two editions can be determined. It is a neighbourhood incorporated into the city at later stages of suburbanisation, with single-family housing and an above-average share of residents aged 25–44. The analysis performed does not reveal any similar connections for other types of neighbourhoods, including those with above-average shares of the elderly. It is safe to argue that territorial city expansion and age-related inter-city differences cannot be seen independently of each other.