Household Necessities Research Articles

Consumer Behaviour Towards Grocery Online Shopping During Pandemic: Case Study in Sayurbox

The use of online groceries is increasing during the pandemic. In America, the increase reached 52% with 20% of shoppers being new users. Based on the survey conducted, it has shown that the Sayurbox is one of the online shops favored by the public to shop for vegetables and other necessities. As many as 24% of the sample used Sayurbox and Happyfresh, 19% used Shopee, 14% used Go-Mart, 9% chose Tokopedia, and 5% used Tanihub and Hypermart. During the pandemic, the trend of cooking the own food began to increase. This has resulted in increased demand for staple food. People are turning to buying healthier and more sustainable food. This research used a qualitative method. It is used to examine the condition of the object naturally with a combined data collection technique. According to this approach, the researcher begins with specific observations to produce a general theory and conclusions drawn from the research. The reason for using an inductive approach is that it considers the context in which the research effort is active, while it is also most appropriate for small samples that produce qualitative data. Data collected by observation, in-depth interviews, and literature study. The object of this research is that people often use online grocery shopping during this pandemic. Samples that has been taken as respondents are those aged 21 to 35 years. Demographic segmentation of Sayurbox are those who is in age of 18 until 50 years. They are a technology literate society with access to the internet. This community is a society that has the economic capacity to make purchases so that the closest people to this segment are workers who have not been or are already married. Potential area are Jakarta, Tangerang, Bekasi, and Depok. Sayurbox refers to the market segment of people who choose an instant lifestyle. Their life is full of busy so, they have no time to shop. They will more comfortable and easier to use services such as Sayurbox to provide food and basic necessities. This behavioral segment is aimed at people who have a tendency to be willing to pay postage and services for someone who has helped them get the goods they need. The motive of someone making a purchase at Sayurbox was most influenced by pandemic conditions. This platform provides a variety of vegetables, fruit, side dishes, beverage ingredients, dairy, package menus, and others to full household necessities in food. Some people use this platform to reduce the risk of being infected with Covid-19. In addition, consumers are also given the convenience and several discounts hitch make them even more diligent in using this platform. Those who use the services from Sayurbox are 21 - 35 years old consumers with a variety of professions. Based on the sample interviewed, it can be concluded that students, workers, and housewives use this platform to full their needs.

Impact of COVID-19’s supply and demand shocks on the household economy of tilapia smallholder farmer

PurposeThis study aims to verify the impact of the supply shock (fall in harvested output) and demand shock (fall in household income) due to the pandemic on the consumption of necessities and household savings of tilapia's smallholder farmer.Design/methodology/approachThe researchers randomly chose 144 households as research samples using the proportional random sampling technique in Padang Jaya District, North Bengkulu Regency. Researchers collected data on household income, farm losses, household consumption for basic needs, labor demand, use of production inputs, the amount of output sold and saving both during and before the pandemic. The data were collected from the sample using a questionnaire prepared by the researchers. This study used a simultaneous equations system for arranging tilapia's smallholder farmer household economic model.FindingsThis study verified that the demand shock phenomenon makes households more severe than the supply shock phenomenon. The demand shock phenomenon made worse-off tilapia smallholder farmers because it caused their household savings to drop during the pandemic. The fall in savings will disrupt the stability of consumption of household necessities (health, food, education and clothing) in the future.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this study was providing empirical evidence about the impact of the demand and supply shock of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable entities in the Indonesian freshwater aquaculture industry, namely, smallholder farmer households of freshwater aquaculture fish.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-08-2022-0554.

Usability Assessment of Delivery Applications for Visually Impaired People: A Case from Saudi Arabia

Technology has become an essential part of our lives, and many of our daily tasks have become entirely dependent on it. For example, routine chores such as shopping for household necessities, booking travel tickets, going to places using all different kinds of transportations etc., are quickly done through mobile phones. And because of how it is easy to use mobile phones, we may forget that others, such as the visually impaired, may face many difficulties when using them. In this research two of the most widely used delivery applications in Saudi Arabia, namely, Hungerstation and Mrsool were studied and evaluated in order to assess their usability for people with visual impairments. Evaluation results show that both applications have usability problems. Nonetheless, the results of the standard ISO usability metrics (Effectiveness, Efficiency and satisfaction) showed that Hungerstation is more usable than Mrsool.

Unsafe temperatures, going without necessities, and unpayable bills: Energy insecurity of people with disabilities in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

Energy insecurity disproportionately impacts households of people with disabilities, which is especially harmful for people with disabilities who rely on electric medical devices to live or have difficulties with thermoregulation without access to heating/cooling. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the energy insecurity of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, including compared to nondisabled people and differences among people with disabilities themselves. To do so, we analyzed United States Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey data from 52,890 people with disabilities and 391,532 people without disabilities; frequency-person weights were applied. During the pandemic, 50.8 % of people with disabilities reduced or forwent basic household necessities in order to pay an energy bill, 36.1 % kept their home at an unsafe or unhealthy temperature, and 37.5 % were unable to pay an energy bill during the last year of the pandemic. People with disabilities were also significantly more likely to be energy insecure during the pandemic than people without disabilities, even when other sociodemographic factors, such as income, were controlled. Energy justice demands everyone, including people with disabilities, have access to safe, affordable, and sustainable energy during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

A comparison of building system parameters between affordable and market-rate housing in New York City

Low-income households in the United States experience higher than average energy burdens (defined as the proportion of household income spent on energy utilities), and many of these households struggle to simultaneously pay for rent, energy, and basic household necessities. The analysis presented here examines whether the underlying characteristics of buildings and their energy systems could contribute to this disparity for affordable housing residents in New York City. It combines an energy audit dataset of 7,328 multifamily buildings with a database of properties receiving local, state, or federal housing subsidies. The results of this analysis indicate that the building-level installed equipment in large (greater than 50,000 square feet) affordable housing buildings in New York City is more efficient than that in market-rate buildings, but this trend largely disappears when considering overall building characteristics, such as location, size, or age. Significant differences in the types of systems installed in affordable and market-rate housing are also observed, as well as the types of energy efficiency recommendations made by energy auditors. However, these latter data were not normalized by building system characteristics, as that analysis is much more difficult to interpret for categorical data such as heating system type. These findings indicate that retrofit policies and building performance standards focused on affordable housing will likely need to account for underlying differences in building characteristics between affordable and market-rate housing to achieve intended impacts.

PELATIHAN PEMBUATAN SABUN CUCI PIRING PADA KELOMPOK TANI RINGIN ASRI DESA KEDUNG BANTENG – KEC. SUMBERMANJING WETAN – KAB. MALANG

Ringin Asri Farmer Group – Kedung Banteng Village is one of the potential farmer groups which is indicated by the many activities carried out, including: sales of agricultural products such as fertilizers, insecticides, agricultural medicines and household necessities such as bath soap, dish soap , hand soap, toothbrush and others. The goods sold in this farmer group are obtained from large markets in Dampit, Turen and Malang. With the location of Sumbermanjing Wetan Village which is relatively far from urban areas, the prices of these goods become more expensive, even though soap products can be made by farmers using very simple technology. On the other hand, the teaching staff at the Department of Chemical Engineering – State Polytechnic of Malang already have the knowledge and skills in making dish soap and implementing the manufacture of dish washing in entrepreneurship courses. The purpose of community service (PPM) is to provide/transfer experience and skills in making and entrepreneurship of dish soap to the Ringin Asri Farmer Group - Kedung Banteng Village - Kec. Sumbermanjing Wetan. This PPM activity was carried out at the Kedung Banteng Village Hall using the lecture, discussion and practice of making dish soap. The results of the PPM showed that the participants interest, enthusiasm for participating in the activity was very high, which was indicated by the ability of participants to make dish soap independently and the results of the questionnaire given, where 95% of participants stated that they were very satisfied

Community empowerment through making variations of nuggets as an effort to improve the family economy during the Covid-19 pandemic

People have found it challenging to meet their household necessities as a result of the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 epidemic since their income has fallen while their needs have risen. The training on how to make nuggets from a variety of food ingredients for personal use and can be used as an effort to raise family income is the purpose of this community service. The variety of these nuggets will meet the tastes of family members and consumers. This service activity was carried out for members of the Women Farmers Group (KWT) Mina Julantoro, Gedongkiwo Village, Mantrijeron Yogyakarta. Methods in this service activity include counseling, training and mentoring, monitoring and evaluation. The KWT members were incredibly enthused about taking part in the program. The KWT members also prepared nuggets at home using a variety of ingredients after the training. It is intended that the community can use its abilities to create a business that produces this variety of nuggets through home companies that can improve nutrition and family income.

Income and household energy consumption in a transition economy: The case of Uzbekistan

We scrutinize the impact of household income on energy consumption in Uzbekistan. We do so because the evidence on household energy consumption in post-socialist transition economies is scarce, while the issue is important. We use the unique nationally representative “Uzbekistan, Jobs, Skills, and Migration Survey.” Our cross-sectional analysis shows that electricity, natural gas, and other fuels (coal, firewood, animal dung and waste, and liquefied natural gas) are equally essential energy sources for households. However, based on the budget share Energy Engel Curve, our analysis shows that low and high-income households spend a larger share of their budget on electricity and natural gas consumption relative to their middle-income peers. Interestingly, we find no strong support for the relationship between income and the percentage of household income spent on the consumption of other fuels. We conjecture that these other fuels became a necessity for households to deal with unreliable gas and electricity supply. (144 words).

Pemberdayaan Paguyuban Sanggar Wuni Kreasi Pemanfaatan Sabut Kelapa “Coconut Fiber” sebagai Produk Kebutuhan Rumah Tangga Ramah Lingkungan di Kelurahan Tegal Ratu Kecamatan Ciwandan Kota Cilegon

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF SANGGAR WUNI CREATIVE UTILIZATION OF COCONUT FIBER AS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY PRODUCT IN TEGAL RATU VILLAGE, CIWANDAN DISTRICT, CILEGON CITY. The coconut fiber is a product of coconut husks. Coconut coir is a component of coconut fruit which if used properly can become a product needed by the domestic market and become a product that has a high export value. Ciwandan District is an area that has many large capital-intensive industries. Human Resources (HR) of local communities are considered not yet qualified to compete at the level of high-ranking officials who have policies. Both mentally and in knowledge compared to immigrants who are educationally and knowledgeable superior to the local community. Friction between migrants and local communities always arises when there is a new factory through the recruitment of workers. Local people think that only people far away can work because there are people inside. Meanwhile, 'natives' find it difficult to get to work because there are no insiders. This issue continues to this day. The problem of unemployment in capital-intensive industrial locations became the subject of discussion at Sanggar Wuni Kreasi. Various formulations such as the development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are a long-term solution to this problem. Sanggar Wuni Kreasi which is a community that carries out community empowerment activities starting from the fields of education, economy, art, and others.

The impact of the volume of sugar cane on the wages of workers in the sugarcane refinery, ketol district, Aceh central regency

Sugarcane (Saccharum Offcinarum L) is one of the important commodities for making sugar which has become a necessity for industry and households. Sugarcane which is processed into sugar granules or often known as brown sugar is located in the Ketol District, Central Aceh Regency. Central Aceh Regency, especially in Ketol District, West Blang Mancung Village, is one of the sugar cane producers. Sugarcane is an annual plant that has its own characteristics, because in the stem there is sugar, sugarcane plants belong to the grass family (Gramenia) such as rice, corn and others. Linear regression analysis is an indirect approach that is used to measure the effect of the volume of sugarcane juice on the wages of workers in the sugar mill Sulaiman Ali sugarcane mill, Ketol District, Central Aceh Regency. The results of the linear regression analysis obtained from the research results are the equation = 7179,497 + 14,464 X1. Where it means that every increase in the total volume of sugarcane juice by 14,464 will increase the wage income of milling workers at the Sulaiman Ali sugarcane refinery, Ketol District, Central Aceh Regency, amounting to Rp. 14,464 /person with an average income of Rp. Rp 34,656.25/person/one production process.

‘A very exclusive experiment in communism’: the radical origins of the Manhattan co-op

AbstractThough it has long been the residence of choice for Manhattan's rich, the co-operative apartment building has an intellectual lineage that originates in pre-Marxian communitarian socialism. In the early nineteenth century, radical philosophers Charles Fourier and Robert Owen first theorized a multifamily dwelling owned in joint stock by its residents that could deliver economies of scale in the production and delivery of household necessities. Using previously untranslated French sources and archival material (New Harmony Working Men's Institute), this article demonstrates how early socialist ideas about housing, domestic labour and ownership evolved into the idea for the New York City co-operative apartment building.

Postpartum Women's Lived Experiences of Perinatal Intimate Partner Violence in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A Phenomenological Study Approach.

ObjectivePerinatal intimate partner violence affects the health and safety of postpartum women and their infants. However, it has not been well recognized and addressed in the study setting. Hence, this study aimed to explore postpartum women’s lived experiences of perinatal intimate partner violence and its contributing factors in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia.MethodsA phenomenological study approach was used to explore postpartum women’s lived experiences of perinatal partner violence from January to March 2020. A total of twenty-two postnatal women and five health extension workers (HEWs) were interviewed. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim in local languages, and then translated into English. Data were analyzed thematically, using deductive and inductive coding. The consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (CORE-Q) checklist was followed to report the findings.ResultsResults indicated that postpartum women had experienced recurrent violence before, during, and after pregnancy from their husbands, with 16 out of 22 women being subjected to perinatal intimate partner violence. A majority of the participants delineated their exposure to perinatal physical violence next to perinatal psychological violence. Many of the interviewed women noted that violence during pregnancy was exacerbated and increased during postpartum. Moreover, the interviewees revealed that some partners were not only a serious threat to their wives, but also their infants during the postpartum period. Four of the participants stated that their newborns were hit and thrown by their father and became unconscious. Participants linked husbands’ perinatal violence with suspicion about the newborn, male-child preference, partner infidelity and jealousy, contraceptives usage, alcohol consumptions, indifference to shortages on household necessities, improper parenting, and financial problems.ConclusionThis study highlights that postpartum women are experiencing continuous and severe forms of perinatal IPV in the study setting. Thus, community-level interventions that minimize perinatal partner violence against postnatal women and their infants are needed.

COVID-19 water and electricity subsidies in Ghana: How do the poor benefit?

This paper investigates the extent of welfare distribution amongst households in Ghana due to the government's subsidies on electricity and water as part of its relief package to households on the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study seeks to induce policy discussions on effective targeting and the consequential welfare distribution of subsidy interventions in Ghana. Subsidising the price of basic household necessities is expected to immensely benefit the poor whose expenditure is largely occupied by these necessity goods, but, as pertains in developing countries, schemes for effective targeting of the poor are nearly non-existent. This mostly leads to misalignments in income redistribution that is eventually anti-poor. Data from Ghana Living Standard Survey (seventh wave) which captures household final expenditure on goods and services in 2017, including electricity and water, is used for the analysis. First, we simulate household consumption changes as a result of the pandemic on the 2017 data, using on real-time information in the course of the pandemic on household income and expenditure changes. Next, we estimate a complete demand system for all households, and their elasticities of demand for electricity, water and food using the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Using the computed elasticities, Taylor's approximations are then used to simulate consumer welfare in the form of compensating variation (CV) from price changes due to government subsidies. Our results indicate that the imposed subsidies promote consumer welfare of all households, especially, households living in rural areas. The blanket subsidy on water better identified the poor and the lifeline households than the subsidy on electricity which had a yardstick for targeting. However, we find that the subsidies on the household utilities are regressive in the sense that lifeline consumer households and the poorest households in both urban and rural areas are rather less advantaged in welfare redistribution in both subsidies.

Livelihood strategy of coastal households during covid-19 pandemic: case study in Wermaktian District, Tanimbar Islands Regency

This research aims to analyze coastal households' livelihood strategy in coping with the covid-19 pandemic, especially for the households who live by coastal forest in Wermaktian District, Tanimbar Islands Regency. Research is conducted at two villages, namely Marantutul Village and Batuputih Village. These villages are selected because the households in that village undergo both farming and fishery activities. The sample is determined purposively, involving 60 households with 30 households taken from each village. The research shows that households who live by coastal forest have used several strategies for fulfilling household necessities during the covid-19 pandemic. Those strategies are classified into three categories, respectively on-farm (intensifying farming works), non-farm (working at lumber industry), and off-farm (as a trader). Working in the lumber industry has the biggest contribution to household income, which is 53 percents. The remaining percentage is contributed by copra commodity, crops, fishery, and household services.

Livelihood challenges and healthcare-seeking behavior of fishermen amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh

The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed significant challenges to human wellbeing and survival, particularly among groups of people such as the Sundarbans mangrove forest resource-dependent communities (SMFRDCs), and especially the fishermen in these communities, in developing countries like Bangladesh. It is therefore essential to explore the livelihood conditions, health status and care-seeking behavior of the fishermen in these communities during the ongoing pandemic. This study was carried out by applying mixed methods, including interviews and focus group discussion (FGD), in the three sub-districts of Khulna, Satkhira, and Bagerhat, which are in the southwestern region adjacent to the Sundarbans mangrove forest (SMF) of Bangladesh. Quantitative data were collected from 76 fishermen through telephone interviews, while 24 fishermen participated in three distinct focus group discussions. The findings suggest that the fishermen have experienced a reduction of income, as they have been barred from entering the SMF during the pandemic, which has gradually affected their number of trips to and stays at the forest as well as their catch of fisheries resources. The decline in demand in both regional and international markets has left the fishermen with only a handful of alternative ways to adjust to these unprecedented circumstances, such as borrowing money, selling household assets, and in some extreme cases marrying off young children to reduce the financial burden, as many are now jobless. Their financial hardship during the pandemic has affected their households' capacity to afford basic household necessities, including food, fuel, education, and health expenses. Subsequently, when these fishermen suffer ailments such as fever, cough, headache, and cold – the general symptoms of COVID-19 – they cannot seek medical assistance from trained doctors. Their financial constraints have compelled them to rely on indigenous knowledge, in particular village quack doctors, or in some cases to seek help from local pharmacies for modern medicine. Thus, the government should provide financial support and strengthen the local market value chain so that disadvantaged fishermen in SMFRDCs can adopt alternative livelihood opportunities. Furthermore, longitudinal research on the impacts of COVID-19 on livelihood, local adaptation strategies, health status, and care-seeking behavior is also strongly recommended.

A Review on Cultural Customs of Marriage Traditions Among Banjar Ethnic Women in Banjarmasin Indonesia

This study reveals the tradition of the Banjar inland tribes in their marriage rituals. For a Banjar ethnic woman, who adheres to her cultural customs, a marriage for them will only take place when it is arranged by the family. Arranged marriage means a marriage determined by the family with the prospective husband chosen by the family on certain factors. Family is the dominant factor that determines the future of a Banjar ethnic woman especially in the aspect of marriage. The research methodology used in this research is a literature review that reveals the secrets behind conventional marriage practices using a phenomenological approach. Firstly, this study found that for the Banjar ethnic group, traditionally arranged marriages are compulsory. Second, there is a culture of giving money in a nominal amount to the bride’s family before the wedding takes place. Third, the bride’s home must be filled with donations such as furniture or daily household necessities. If things as stated cannot be met, then the bride’s family will look for another prospective husband for her daughter. Such a marriage tradition is the practice and belief of the ancestors of the Banjar tribe, it is an ancient practice of dynamic animism.Keywords: Rituals; marriages; customs; Banjar; Indonesia.

Research on Impact Mechanism of Demand Side of Urban Residents’ Electricity Consumption: Analysis Based on Microscopic Survey Data

With the further acceleration of urbanization in China, the proportions of both urban residents’ energy consumption and energy-consuming terminal electricity are showing an increasing trend at the same time. In view of the dynamic and time-varying complex system characteristics of power system, it is of great significance to study the impact mechanism of urbanization residents’ electricity consumption on the realization of demand-side management (DSM) and environmental protection. Based on the one-year follow-up survey data obtained from household meter reading, this paper studies the impact mechanism of urban residents’ electricity consumption in different seasons (summer, winter, and the whole year) and terminals (with and without air-conditioning and full samples) by descriptive analysis and multiple linear regression model. The results show that, on the whole, electricity is a necessity for urban households and does not change significantly with changes in income. At the turn of summer and autumn and the turn of winter and spring, high-income families tend to use higher levels of energy in pursuit of comfort, while low- and middle-income families do not have luxury consumption. In different seasons, the influence mechanism of household electricity consumption at different terminals is different.

Website Vulnerabilities Attacks and Negative Impacts

In today's modern age, everyone from the individual to an ad company has the support of technology, from the youngest child to the oldest, likewise as from the unemployed to the lender, using all the technology. In a smart phone or computer, the globe seems to own passed the time. Not only household necessities like home groceries, clothes, utensils, furniture, equipment but also hotel booking, restaurant, hospital appointment, tourism, railway-bus-flight booking, stock exchange likewise as important banking industry are related to this. Now that everything is occurring online, most are expecting everything in their own backyard. Websites or applications are created for online work, further as websites are designed in HTML. HTML is that the simple design language so it code is shown all told browsers. This paper try and show how far hackers can make the most of this simplicity and the way much impact it's on user information.

A new approach to analyse conditional demand: An application to Australian energy consumption

Laitinen et al. (1983) proposed an extension to the Working's (1943) Model which allows the marginal share to be a linear function of the corresponding budget share. In this paper, we derive the conditional (within a group of goods) version of Laitinen's Generalized Working's Model which is an important and useful generalization of the popular Working's Model with respect to the conditional case. We then use the new model to analyse the Australian energy consumption patterns conditionally for electricity, gas, petrol, and diesel using the most recent ABS Household Expenditure Survey 2015–2016 data. We found some interesting energy consumption patterns in Australia at (a) states/territories (b) remoteness of location and (c) income group levels. The results indicate that energy, as a group, is a necessity for all Australian households irrespective of their income and where they live. Within specified energy group, electricity is a necessity and petrol and diesel are luxuries for households across Australia and households of all income groups. Gas switches between being a necessity or a luxury based on the state/territory and level of remoteness. This is an appealing result that illustrates the valuable property of the Generalized Working's Model whereby a good can switch from a luxury to a necessity and vice versa, something that is ruled out in the original Working's Model.

Cross-sectional associations of neighborhood third places with social health among community-dwelling older adults.

Social health is a key aspect of active ageing. The objectives of this study are to investigate whether and what type of neighborhood third places are associated with positive social health among community dwelling older adults, and explore whether the associations vary by gender. Neighborhood third places are those spaces that have a social function and are located within a neighborhood, but outside the home (first place) and work (second place). Cross-sectional data were from 981 adults aged 55 years and older who responded to a survey conducted in 2018 in three Singapore neighborhoods. The neighborhoods were selected because they have a high percentage of older residents, different housing typologies, and heterogeneity of built environment qualities. Social health was measured using the six-item Lubben Social Network Scale. Attributes of participants' physical environment included residential density, pedestrian-friendly street design, access to public transport, and were objectively assessed using geographic information systems data. Covariates included age, sex, ethnic group, highest educational qualification, marital status, number of people living in dwelling, years living at current address, dwelling unit type, and number of diagnosed medical conditions and IADLs. Regression analysis was performed using Stata version 15 and indicated that female respondents who live in closer proximity to a wet market were more likely to have higher levels of social health independently of individual demographic and physical health characteristics, physical environment qualities, and other destination types. In a time of heightened concern about social isolation and loneliness among older age groups, this study contributes evidence that older people, particularly females, who live in closer proximity to a wet market self-reported better social health. Wet markets are spaces where people can mingle while purchasing or bargaining for fresh produce and household necessities. The mechanisms via which neighborhood third places may contribute to social health requires examination.