Factors Influencing Cooperative Membership and Share Increment: An Application of the Logistic Regression Analysis in the Malaysian Cooperatives
This study investigates factors that influence cooperative membership and their share capital increment using the binary logistic regression analysis. Data from a survey conducted in late 2008 with 380 respondents (members and non-members) from cooperatives in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur were used to...
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my.unimas.ir.183382022-01-24T00:28:22Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18338/ Factors Influencing Cooperative Membership and Share Increment: An Application of the Logistic Regression Analysis in the Malaysian Cooperatives Azmah, Othman Fatimah, Kari Rohana, Jani Rosita, Hamdan HB Economic Theory This study investigates factors that influence cooperative membership and their share capital increment using the binary logistic regression analysis. Data from a survey conducted in late 2008 with 380 respondents (members and non-members) from cooperatives in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur were used to investigate the factors. The study showed that age, occupation, AGM attendance and membership duration are important predictors in the model. It was found that people in the older age group (45 years thru highest) are 19 times more likely to become members. Those in the private sector are 0.517 less likely to become members as compared to government servant. Those that diligently attended cooperative AGM were found to be 4 times more likely to increase their cooperative share holding. Field of Research: Cooperative, Development economics Billion Brains 2012 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18338/1/Azmah.pdf Azmah, Othman and Fatimah, Kari and Rohana, Jani and Rosita, Hamdan (2012) Factors Influencing Cooperative Membership and Share Increment: An Application of the Logistic Regression Analysis in the Malaysian Cooperatives. World Review of Business Research, 2 (5). pp. 24-35. ISSN 1838-3955 (Print) http://www.wrbrpapers.com/ |
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This study investigates factors that influence cooperative membership and their share capital increment using the binary logistic regression analysis. Data from a survey conducted in late 2008 with 380 respondents (members and non-members) from cooperatives in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur were used to investigate the factors. The study showed that age, occupation, AGM attendance and membership duration are important predictors in the model. It was found that people in the older age group (45 years thru highest) are 19 times more likely to become members. Those in the private sector are 0.517 less likely to become members as compared to government servant. Those that diligently attended cooperative AGM were found to be 4 times more likely to increase their cooperative share holding.
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Factors Influencing Cooperative Membership and Share Increment: An Application of the Logistic Regression Analysis in the Malaysian Cooperatives |
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