Web-based Questionnaire Exploring the Grocery Shopping Experience of Customers Aged 65+ in UK, 2021

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This data is a part of a PhD thesis that aims to explore the grocery shopping experience of older individuals (aged 65+) in the United Kingdom (UK). In order to provide a better shopping experience to older individuals in future research. A self-administered web-based questionnaire was adopted to obtain a large number of opinions about the finding of the literature reviews and a card sorting method was done by the researcher. Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Southampton research ethics committee before starting the recruitment process (Ethics/ERGO Number: 62401). The questionnaire was designed using Microsoft Forms and the link of the questionnaire was sent between June and August 2021 to the participants through third parties, with the poster containing the main information about the research aim and data management. In addition, posters were placed in different places in Southampton and Winchester where older individuals normally gather, such as grocery stores and supermarkets, cafes and places of worship. The questionnaire covered several points, namely: shopping behaviour, labelling, store layout and products, checkouts, shopping satisfaction, technology use, and demographic information. As a result, two hundred and thirty-three responses were received and took an average of half an hour for each participant to complete.This data is a part of a PhD thesis that aims to explore the grocery shopping experience of older individuals (aged 65+) in the United Kingdom (UK). In order to provide a better shopping experience to older individuals in future research. A self-administered web-based questionnaire was adopted to obtain a large number of opinions about the finding of the literature reviews and a card sorting method was done by the researcher. Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Southampton research ethics committee before starting the recruitment process (Ethics/ERGO Number: 62401). The questionnaire was designed using Microsoft Forms and the link of the questionnaire was sent between June and August 2021 to the participants through third parties, with the poster containing the main information about the research aim and data management. In addition, posters were placed in different places in Southampton and Winchester where older individuals normally gather, such as grocery stores and supermarkets, cafes and places of worship. The questionnaire covered several points, namely: shopping behaviour, labelling, store layout and products, checkouts, shopping satisfaction, technology use, and demographic information. As a result, two hundred and thirty-three responses were received and took an average of half an hour for each participant to complete.

A self-administered web-based questionnaire covered several points: shopping behaviour, labelling, store layout and products, checkouts, shopping satisfaction, technology use, and demographic information. The questionnaire begins with behaviour questions and then attitude questions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-855703
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=ef5aa2f1a1070dd9009d3aa1bbd5ba095ecf6cf19eb8bab189d32e56616837bf
Provenance
Creator Alhathal, F, University of Southampton
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2022
Rights Fahad Alhathal, University of Southampton; The UK Data Archive has granted a dissemination embargo. The embargo will end on 1 April 2024 and the data will then be available in accordance with the access level selected.
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Resource Type Numeric; Text
Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage United Kingdom