Betydelse av reference group på svenska

• 0 a group of people that influences the decisions and opinions of a person or group:

  • Whether a person felt rich or poor compared to their reference group was also a way of predicting spending behaviour.

• 1 a group that advises a company or an organization on a particular subject:

  • a consumer reference group

  • The Government intended to form an industry reference group to provide expert advice.

• 2 a group to which a person or another group is compared when you are studying the effects of something:

  • They studied the difference between the industry's growth in the country as a whole, and the same industry's growth in the appropriate reference group.

  • Children of households classified as having high or intermediate income were used as the reference group.