Gould Carlos F, Urpelainen Johannes
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Energy Sustain Dev. 2020 Feb;54:36-50. doi: 10.1016/j.esd.2019.09.003. Epub 2019 Nov 23.
Widespread adoption of clean cooking fuels is a necessary step toward reducing household air pollution and improving population health. Here we use large-scale surveys (10,000 households) from two Indian states, Kerala and Rajasthan, to examine how education and attitudes toward cooking associate with the adoption of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), India's most popular clean cooking fuel. We report three main results. First, education is a strong predictor of LPG adoption. Second, perceptions that LPG is good and affordable and progressive health-related perceptions are associated with LPG ownership. Third, and surprisingly, education does not predict positive attitudes toward clean cooking fuels. These results suggest that education leads to LPG adoption, but not through attitudinal changes. Further research should examine the mediators of the observed robust education-adoption association.
广泛采用清洁烹饪燃料是减少家庭空气污染和改善民众健康的必要步骤。在此，我们利用来自印度喀拉拉邦和拉贾斯坦邦两个邦的大规模调查（10000户家庭），来研究教育程度和对烹饪的态度如何与采用液化石油气（LPG，印度最受欢迎的清洁烹饪燃料）相关联。我们报告了三个主要结果。第一，教育程度是采用LPG的有力预测指标。第二，认为LPG质量好且价格实惠以及与健康进步相关的认知与拥有LPG有关。第三，令人惊讶的是，教育程度并不能预测对清洁烹饪燃料的积极态度。这些结果表明，教育会促使人们采用LPG，但并非通过态度转变来实现。进一步的研究应考察所观察到的教育程度与采用LPG之间强劲关联的中介因素。
