Public Preference Analysis and Social Benefits Evaluation of River Basin Ecological Restoration: Application of the Choice Experiments for the Shiyang River, China
Table 2
Descriptive statistics of the sample.
Project
Upper reach
Middle reach
Lower reach
Urban
Rural
Urban
Rural
Urban
Rural
Gender
0.495 (0.500)
0.655 (0.475)
0.677 (0.468)
0.730 (0.444)
0.680 (0.467)
0.719 (0.449)
Age (years)
35.187 (10.172)
46.294 (13.034)
39.126 (12.713)
43.865 (11.284)
36.718 (11.412)
51.281 (10.767)
Level of education (years)
12.000 (3.464)
7.769 (4.167)
12.291 (3.561)
9.021 (3.338)
12.913 (2.903)
8.460 (3.283)
Number of families/persons
4.159 (1.298)
4.765 (1.633)
4.173 (1.375)
4.660 (1.298)
4.068 (1.331)
3.986 (1.474)
Labor input
0.534 (0.210)
0.566 (0.212)
0.571 (0.230)
0.571 (0.210)
0.621 (0.197)
0.656 (0.248)
Number of samples
107
119
127
141
103
139
Note: (a) In gender statistics, males are equal to 1, females are equal to 0; (b) data are the mean (standard deviation).
