Consumer Expectations on Food Safety and Information, Survey of 616 Istanbul Households

Supplementary file 1 contains survey data from 616 people in Istanbul who influence household food consumption decisions. The data was used to examine consumer expectations regarding food safety, information provision, and disclosure efforts through factor analysis and non-parametric tests. The study was authored by Osman İnan and last updated on 2026-04-24.

Use Cases

• Analyzing differences in food safety expectations based on demographic characteristics like gender, age, and education mentioned in the description.
• Identifying consumer expectation subgroups (information, control, conservation, improvement) formed through factor analysis.
• Comparing expectations across socio-economic status (SES) groups using results from Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests.
• Informing policy initiatives for sustainable food consumption based on varying consumer expectations.

Strengths

• Data is based on a survey of 616 participants, providing a specific sample size.
• Analysis includes multiple demographic variables: gender, age, education, household income, and socio-economic status.
• Dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for open sharing and reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is limited to Istanbul, Turkey, which may affect generalizability to other regions.

Provenance

Source

Osman İnan via figshare.

Collection Method

Data obtained through a literature review and a survey of 616 people in Istanbul.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 11:46:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Istanbul, Turkey.