According to the figures on the graph, the most common personal motivation for buying fairly traded products in Germany in 2021 was that no child labor was involved in the production of fair trade products. 94.7 percent of respondents gave this as the main reason for their purchases, followed by "quality" and "fair prices for producers".
What is your personal motivation for buying fairly traded products?
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The question was posed as follows: "I will be reading out possible reasons why fair traded products are being purchased. Please evaluate every statement based on a scale of "very important" to"not important at all", referring to how important each reason is or would be to you personally." Shown here: the top 2 boxes ("very important" and "rather unimportant"). Multiple answers were possible.
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Forum Fairer Handel. (September 29, 2021). What is your personal motivation for buying fairly traded products? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 11, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1094060/motivation-for-buying-fair-trade-germany/
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Forum Fairer Handel. (2021). What is your personal motivation for buying fairly traded products? . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 11, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1094060/motivation-for-buying-fair-trade-germany/
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