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Table 3 Parameters of the LCA model with 6 classes of shopping types

From: Insights into shopping travel behavior: latent classes in relation to attitudes towards shopping

  

Latent classes

  

Time-involved

Non-shoppers

Grocery and Online Shoppers

Car-addicted

Shop-aholics

Young and Independent

Fun-shoppers

Carless Leisure

Shoppers

Car-dependent

Online-shoppers

  

24.0 %

9.7 %

17.4 %

8.3 %

17.6 %

23.1 %

Prediction of indicators (measurement model)

Values

 

CL1

CL2

CL3

CL4

CL5

CL6

Shopperpurchase

at least 3 times per week

0.02

0.98

0.69

0.01

0.88

0.29

less often

0.98

0.02

0.31

0.99

0.12

0.71

Carshoppurchase

yes

0.00

0.01

0.65

0.05

0.00

0.95

no

1.00

0.99

0.35

0.95

1.00

0.05

Nearbyshopping

0-1 km

0.63

0.92

0.14

0.48

0.55

0.07

1-5 km

0.35

0.08

0.39

0.43

0.37

0.73

> 5 km

0.02

0.00

0.46

0.09

0.08

0.20

Shopperstroll

weekly

0.03

0.14

0.58

0.11

0.33

0.01

monthly

0.45

0.49

0.34

0.85

0.54

0.45

less often

0.52

0.37

0.07

0.04

0.13

0.53

Shopperonline

weekly

0.08

0.41

0.84

0.06

0.14

0.16

monthly

0.64

0.51

0.14

0.86

0.54

0.65

less often

0.28

0.08

0.02

0.08

0.32

0.19

Carusershare

> 0.66

0.08

0.02

0.21

0.10

0.01

0.47

≤ 0.66 and > 0.33

0.11

0.40

0.58

0.28

0.01

0.18

≤ 0.33

0.82

0.58

0.20

0.62

0.98

0.34

Obligationshare

> 0.5

0.53

0.02

0.00

0.11

0.01

0.29

≤ 0.5

0.47

0.98

1.00

0.89

0.99

0.71

Prediction of latent class Membership (structural model)a

Values

 

P-value

CL2

CL3

CL4

CL5

CL6

Intercept

  

−3.92

−5.29

−7.77

−0.09

−4.51

young

18–35 years

**

   0.23

   3.05

   5.55

   1.89

   0.96

carinhh

> 0

**

   3.74

   3.66

   4.24

−0.38

   5.71

children

> 0

**

    2.01

   2.34

   2.48

−0.51

   0.00

employed

full and half

**

−1.93

−0.24

−2.61

−1.38

−1.05

highdensity

> 15,000

**

−0.73

   0.76

   0.50

   2.22

−0.81

highpoi

> 150

*

   1.05

−0.76

   0.66

−1.62

−0.30

  1. aClass 1 is reference class
  2. Significance tests: *P < 0.10, **P < 0.001
  3. Specific characteristics of the classes are marked in bold