36 semi-structured interviews with Chinese consumers who purchased or needed customized furniture between February and April 2022. Researchers from Nanjing Forestry University developed a 4E interview-grounded theory model to explore demand factors across essential information, information extraction, user experience, and product expectation dimensions. The study included participants aged 20-55, with half male and half female respondents.
Use Cases
- Analyzing consumer demand factors for customized furniture based on the four 4E dimensions described.
- Training models for qualitative text coding and categorization based on interview transcripts.
- Studying regional differences in consumer preferences within China based on the multi-region sampling mentioned.
- Developing interview guides for grounded theory research based on the structured 4E model methodology.
Strengths
- 36 interview transcripts provide a substantive qualitative dataset.
- Data collection followed ethical review and informed consent procedures.
- The sample includes demographic diversity with equal gender representation and participants aged 20-55.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the 2022 China sample.
Provenance
- Source
- Zhou, Chengmin via QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Semi-structured interviews using a 4E grounded theory guide, recorded and transcribed.
- Time Range
- February to April 2022
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 19:59:37; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Multiple regions across China