Determination of Fish Consuming Habits of Vocational School Students from Different Families

Abstract

In this study, the fish consuming habits of the university students of Narman Vocational School of Atatürk University in Erzurum city were studied. The data was determined by face-to-face questions asked to the 269 participants and then subjected to statistical analyses by using Chi-square independence test. The data were commended by giving in the form of tables. The results were handed by evaluating the answers given by the participants about their monthly incomes, yearly fish consumption, fish supplying way, fish prices, the kinds of consumed fish, fish cooking form and the seasonal changing of fish consumption. According to results of the study, while people aged less than 21 years consume 60% of their annual fish consumption during the summer months, this rate was determined as 31.1% for people aged between 21 and 30. It was understood that while 29.8% of the participants whose incomes were lower than 300 Turkish Liras (TRY) consumed fish once a month, this rate was 54.3% for the participants whose income levels were more than 1200 TRY. While 41.7% of the participants whose income levels were between 900-1200 TRY were cooking fish by frying method, for the other participants whose income levels were more than 1200 TRY this rate was 62.9%.

Keywords

• Fish consumtion,Consumer preference,Erzurum,Narman

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