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- Title
A cohort analysis of household vehicle expenditure in the U.S. and Japan: A possibility of generational marketing.
- Authors
Fukuda, Kosei
- Abstract
This paper shows the usefulness of cohort analysis for generational marketing. Aggregate data classified by age and period are decomposed into age, period, and generational cohort effects. We compare two cohort-analysis models, the constrained multiple regression model and the Bayesian cohort model. The empirical results that are common to the household vehicle expenditure ratio in the U.S. and Japan are as follows: (1) among a total of three effects, the period effect is the smallest; (2) with the exception of the latest birth cohort, the cohort effect shows a clear upward trend; (3) the age effect decreases in the 20s and 30s, and next increases with a peak detected in the late 50s, and finally decreases. We provide marketing implications for cohort segmentation and forecasting.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JAPAN; COST of living; BAYESIAN analysis; BUSINESS forecasting; COHORT analysis
- Publication
Marketing Letters, 2010, Vol 21, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0923-0645
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11002-009-9077-2