Clothes shopping survey of EF students

Basically what we’ve done is to come up with 10 questions for EF students to answer regarding clothes shopping.Siva sent us to a class in the Nelson classroom containing level 3 or 4 students.The class contained mostly Arabic and South-American students.We interviewed total 8 students. The questions that we asked were following

1. How do you usually go shopping?
2. How often do you go shopping?
3. Do you prefer to buy fashionable clothes or something that you feel comfortable with?
4. Do you care about the prices of the clothes?
5. Do you have any special brand-loyalty when you go shopping
6. Do advertisements influence your decisions while you’re shopping?
7. Do you think that girls are more obsessed with shopping?
8. Does the use of child-labour in making some products affect your shopping decisions?
9. Where to you to prefer to do you’re shopping?
10. Do you have an specific time for shopping or are you more of an impulsive shopper?

Findings: 1.-  5 of 8 students said that they like to go shopping with friends., the rest by themselves.

2.- 5 of 8 said that they go shopping once a month, 2 once every six month and just one once every 6 month.

3.- 6 of them said that they prefer comfortable cloth than something fashionable.

4.- 5 of them said that they don’t care about the prices

5.- 6 of them have a brand loyalty, specially with brands like Nike, Adidas, and Echo.   6.

– 6 oh theme said that advertisements don’t make a difference in their decisions  by the time there are shopping.

7.–  All of the 8 students agree that woman have an obsession for shopping more than men, but just because of an stereotype.

8.-  just 5 of them said that child-labour affects their shopping decisions.

9.- 4 said they prefer to buy in their home country, 2 in Auckland, specially in New Market or at Queen St, and 2 in somewhere else.

10.- 6 of theme said they were impulsive shoppers, and the other 2 in an specific time   Now, as we can see on the report, most of the students have very similar shopping habits.The survey shows that people like to go shopping with friends, which was what we expected before the survey.Also regarding how often the students shopped we thought that once a month would be the most likely answer which proofed we were right. 

Furthermore, most of our following questions came down as we expected, that people agreed that women have a stronger obsession with shopping, and that people prefer comfortable clothes before fashionable, however when we asked about the use of child-labour, many students weren’t really aware of what it was all about, which made us a little bit surprised. We can also see that most of the students are impulsive shoppers and don’t really mind in what country they buy their clothes, they basically buy what attracts them at the time. 

So, to summarize the survey, we can see that, wherever you come from, shopping habits are mostly very similar, which was the outcome we had expected. 

GABRIEL & ALEX / EFTUI – Siva’s angels