Cross Tabulation between Use Life and Disposition Behavior of Two-wheeler

The cross tabulation between use life and disposition method is shown below which can be used
to study the distribution of disposition behavior as per the use time of Two-wheeler.
Cross tabulation between Use life and Disposition Method
Disposition Method

Total

Exchange
Give it to
Sell it in
it with new family/friend secondary Store it at
one
s
market
home
Use
life

Less than a
year

Count

1-4 years

Count

% within Use
life
% within Use
life

4-8 years

Count
% within Use
life

8-12 years

Count
% within Use
life

More than 12 Count

years
% within Use
life
Total

Count
% within Use
life

.0%

.0%

100.0%

13

18

38.2%

8.8%

52.9%

18

65

18.9%

8.4%

68.4%

.0%

27.8%

33.3%

.0%

33.3%

.0%

31

17

91

20.4%

11.2%

59.9%

.0% 100.0%
0

34

.0% 100.0%
4

95

4.2% 100.0%
7

18

38.9% 100.0%
2

66.7% 100.0%
13

152

8.6% 100.0%

The table shows that most of the Two-wheelers which have been used for more than 8 years were
given to the family or friends or stored at home. More than half of the Two-wheelers used for
more than a year and less than 8 years were sold in the secondary market. Two-wheelers used for
less than 8 years were exchanged more in compare to the Two-wheelers which were older than 8
years.

A hypothesis was set and tested using the chi-square test in order to examine the possible
relationship between use life and disposition behavior. For this, the following null hypothesis has
been tested.
H1: There is no significant association between use life and disposition behavior of Twowheeler.
Chi- square test between use life of Two-wheeler and disposition behavior was performed to
analyze if there is any possible relationship between the use life and the disposition behavior
used by the respondents to dispose their old Two-wheeler.
Chi-square Test between Price and Disposition Behavior of Two-wheeler

Value

Asymp. Sig.
(2-sided)

df

Pearson Chi-Square

59.156

12

.000*

Likelihood Ratio

50.714

12

.000

Linear-by-Linear Association

12.348

.000

N of Valid Cases

152

*. Correlation is significant at
the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
df = degree of freedom

The result above shows the chi-square value of 59.156 with the significance value of 0.000,
which means that there is significant association between use life and disposition behavior of
Two-wheeler at 1 percentage of significance, as we reject Hypothesis 1. So, we can conclude that
the user shows definite disposition behavior of Two-wheeler with respect to the use life.