Journal of Statistics and Information

According to the 2008 survey data of the consumption on dairy productions of urban residents in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,and utilized the Path Analysis Model,this article analyzes the influence factors on dairy production's consumption.The survey shows that the individual income and consumption habits have positive influence to dairy productions consumption,and the demographic characteristics,such as gender,age,nationality,occupation,education,family size etc.,also have some influences.This article indicates that it is important to improve the nutrition knowledge of dairy production,to help the residents to build up the dairy consumption habits especially for teenagers and to increase residents' income and favorites to dairy productions.This article also encourages the enterprises to produce more varied productions with differentiation on taste,price and localization to meet different group's consumption needs,to improve the logistical system and make more efforts to develop the markets of small city and town.