CONSUMER PREFERENCES IN PURCHASE OF MEAT 
37 
QUESTIONNAIRE 
United States Department of Agriculture 
bureau of agricultural economics 
washington 
1924-25 meat questionnaire * 
1. (a) How many persons in your family (other than servants) ?_lrp , , i 
(b) How many servants eating two or more meals daily? 
2. What is your average weekly meat consumption? 
3. 
4. 
Kind of meat 
Beef, steaks 
Beef, other 
Lamb, chops 
Lamb, other 
Pork 
Pounds 
Cost 
Veal 
Smoked and cured meats 
Other (exclude poultry and sea food) 
Total 
(a) Do you think your family eats too much meat? 
Just enough? Not enough? 
(6) If too much or not enough, why? 
(a) How many men eat meat?__ How many do not?. 
(&) How many women eat meat? How many do not?. 
(c) How many children 15 to 19 l Ho w many do not ?. 
eat meati r j 
(d) How many children 10 to 14 [ m . MKT ma ^ T do Dot? 
Total cost 
shown in 
Table 3. 
eat 
meat? JHow many 
(6) H °mea 1 tT y ^k^ 11 ^ *° ° ^ } How many do 
not?. 
Table 4. 
(/) H °elt m a pat? CMldren Und6r 5 } How many do not? — - 
(g) How many servants eat meat ? How many do not ? 
5. If there are any adults who do not eat meat, what are thel ™ , ■> r 
reasons why they do not ? / 
6. What kind of meat is preferred in your household? I Tables 6, 
Veal, lamb, pork, beef ? J and 8. 
7. Why do you buy — 
(a) Steaks and chops ? Table 9. 
(6) Roasts? Table 10. 
(c) Boilingmeat? Table 11. 
8. How many times a week is meat served at the following meals:] 
Breakfast iTables 
Lunch or supper J and 13. 
Dinner J 
9. Why do you serve meat in preference to other foods? Table 14. 
10. When you do not serve meat for dinner, what usually takes itslTa b 1 e s . 
place? J and 16 
11. Why do you substitute these things for meat? It bl 17 
1. Z. o. J 
* The questions listed here are those for which results are shown in this publication. The order of the 
questions as they appeared in the questionnaire has been changed but the wording and arrangement of 
each question is the same as that used in the questionnaire. Changes have been made in some of the 
questions, when used in the headings of tables and in the text in order to secure clearness of meaning 
when separated from the accompanying questions in the questionnaire. 
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