This document summarizes cluster analysis and provides an example of its use. Cluster analysis is an approach to reduce complexity in data by grouping similar objects together. It generates homogeneous clusters that are heterogeneous from one another. The document then discusses an example where cluster analysis was used to identify types of fair trade coffee consumers based on survey responses from 214 people. Six distinct clusters were identified based on variables like purchase behaviors, beliefs, and demographics. Each cluster is described in detail, such as "Cluster 1" being self-oriented occasional buyers. The document concludes by discussing advantages and disadvantages of cluster analysis.
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2. 2
Content
Introduction: the necessity to reduce the
complexity
Recall: what cluster analysis does
An example : cluster analysis in consumer
research on fair trade coffee
Discussion
3. (…)
“Where is the life, we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom, we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge, we have lost in information?”
(…)
T. S. Elliot,
Choruses from the Rock
(1888 – 1965)
Intro
4. (…)
Where is the wisdom, we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge, we have lost in information?
(…)
“Where is the information we have lost in data?”
Intro
5. In order to go from data to information, to
knowledge and to wisdom,
we need to reduce the complexity of the data.
Complexity can be reduced on
- case level : cluster analysis
- on variable level: factor analysis
Intro
6. Cluster analysis can get you from this:
To this:
What cluster analysis does
a
b
d
e
f
c
7. Cluster analysis
• generate groups which are similar
• homogeneous within the group and as much as
possible heterogeneous to other groups
• data consists usually of objects or persons
• segmentation based on more than two variables
What cluster analysis does
8. Cluster analysis
• generates groups which are similar
• the groups are homogeneous within themselves
and as much as possible heterogeneous to other
groups
• data consists usually of objects or persons
• segmentation is based on more than two
variables
What cluster analysis does
9. Examples for datasets used for cluster
analysis:
• socio-economic criteria: income, education, profession,
age, number of children, size of city of residence ....
• psychographic criteria: interest, life style, motivation,
values, involvement
• criteria linked to the buying behaviour: price range, type
of media used, intensity of use, choice of retail outlet,
fidelity, buyer/non-buyer, buying intensity
What cluster analysis does
10. Proximity Measures
• Proximity measures are used to represent the nearness of two
objects
• relate objects with a high similarity to the same cluster and objects
with low similarity to different clusters
• differentiation of nominal-scaled and metric-scaled variables
What cluster analysis does
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d(yi,ys) = [∑ |yij-ysj|r
]1/r
j=1
y = vector
i,s = different objects
j = the different characteristics
r = changes the weight of assigned distances
the calculation of the distances measures is the basis of the
cluster analysis.
11. Two phases:
1. Forming of clusters by the chosen data set – resulting
in a new variable that identifies cluster members
among the cases
2. Description of clusters by re-crossing with the data
What cluster analysis does
12. Cluster Algorithm in agglomerative hierarchical
clustering methods – seven steps to get clusters
1. each object is a independent cluster, n
2. two clusters with the lowest distance are merged to
one cluster. reduce the number of clusters by 1 (n-1)
3. calculate the the distance matrix between the new
cluster and all remaining clusters
4. repeat step 2 and 3, (n-1) times until all objects form
one reminding cluster
What cluster analysis does
13. Finally…
1. decide upon the number of clusters you want to keep
(decision often based on the size of the clusters)
2. description of the clusters by means of the cluster-
forming variables
3. appellation of the clusters with catchy titles
What cluster analysis does
15. Practical Example
Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee (1997!)
214 interviews of consumers of fair trade
coffee (personal and telephone interviews)
Cluster analysis in order to identify consumer
typologies
Identification of 6 clusters
Description of these clusters by further
analysis: comparison of means, crosstabs etc.
16. Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee
Description of clusters:
Cluster 1 (11,6%): “self-oriented fair trade buyer”
Cluster 2 (13,6%): “less ready to take personal
constraints”
Cluster 3 (18,2%): ”less engaged about fair trade”
Cluster 4 (32,2%): “intensive buyer”
Cluster 5 (18,7%): “value-oriented”
Cluster 6 (5,6%): “does not like the taste of fair trade
coffee”
17. Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee
Description of Cluster 1 (11,6%): “self-oriented fair trade
buyer” :
Searches satisfaction by doing the good thing
Is not altruistic
Buys occasionally
Sticks to his conventional coffee brand
High level of formal education
Frequently religious (catholic or protestant)
18. Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee
Description of Cluster 2 (13,6%): “less ready to take
personal constraints”
States that “fair trade coffee is hard to find”
Feels responsible for fare development issues
Believes that fair trade is efficient for developing
countries
Is less ready to go to special fair trade outlets
Buys conventional coffee
Likes the taste of fair trade coffee
19. Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee
Description of clusters Cluster 3 (18,2%): ”less engaged
about fair trade” :
Feels no personal responsibility with regard to
development questions
Doesn’t see the efficiency of the consumption of fair
trade goods
The only thing that can make him change is the
influence of friends
Is older then the average fair trade buyer and has less
formal education
20. Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee
Description of clusters: Cluster 4 (32,2%): “intensive
buyer”
Has abandoned conventional coffee brands
Has started to buy fair trade quite a while ago (> 3
years)
Shops frequently in fair trade stores (and not in organic
retail)
Is ready to act for fair development and talks to friends
about it
Relatively young, with low incomes and high
educational values
21. Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee
Description of clusters: Cluster 5 (18,7%): “value-
oriented”
Together with cluster 4 highly aware of development
issues
Ready to act and to constraint consumption habits
Buys for altruistic reasons
Highly involved in social / political action
Most frequently women, highest household income
among all clusters
Own security is the basis for solidary action
22. Consumers and Fair Trade Coffee
Description of clusters: Cluster 6 (5,6%): “does not like
the taste of fair trade coffee”
Lowest purchase intensity of all clusters
Not willing to accept constraints in consumption habits
or higher prices
Most members of these group are attached to a
conventional coffee brand
Relatively high incomes, age within the average of all
groups, lower level of formal education
Less religious than other groups.
23. Conclusion /
discussion
Advantages
• no special scales of measurement necessary
• high persuasiveness and good assignment to realisable
recommendations in practice
Disadvantages
• choice of cluster-forming variables often not based on
theory but at random
• determination of the right number of clusters often time-
consuming – often decided upon arbitrarily
• high influence on the interpretation of the scientist, difficult
to control (good documentation is needed)
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Milan Zeleny, "Management Support Systems: Towards Integrated
Knowledge Management," Human Systems Management 7, no 1
(1987): 59-70.
Tashakkori, A. and Ch. Teddlie: Combining Qualitative and Quantitaive
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