YAYAR, Rüştü Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi - Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakultesi, Turkey , ÇOBAN, M. Necati Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Turkey , TEKİN, Bilge Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi - Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Turkey

Identifying the Factors Affecting the Car Ownership: A Case Study in Urban Areas of the Province of Tokat

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The purchase period of cars expressed within the scope of preferred goods can involve a long period. Car purchase’s including high cost is one of the most important risk factors considered by the consumers. Along with the globalizing world, automotive sector has been developing day by day. In Turkey, the automotive sector has changed in years, and has had an influential evolution. The automobile brands have led to drive for producing the most appropriate cars for the automobile users. In parallel to the growth of economy in Turkey, it was aimed to investigate according to what reasons automobile ownership will differ due to the increasing demand. For that reason, it was analysed whether 438 families residing in urban areas of Tokat province had automobiles or not. The demographical and socio-economic factors determining the automobile ownership and to what extent these factors affect consumers to have an automobile or not were analysed. In the study, Binary Logit Model was used. It was found that the variables of head of family’s being male, and tradesman with high income, house-ownership and credit card were statistically significant, and those positively affected automobile ownership

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Consumer Theory , Car , Binary Logit Model , Tokat

Journal Of Management an‎d Economics

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