Economic Valuation for Cultural and Passive Ecosystem Services Using a Stated Preference (Contingent Valuation Method (CVM)) Case of the Elgeyo Watershed Ecosystem, Kenya

Table 4

Perception on the importance of the ecosystem to cultural services.

Importance of ecosystem cultural/spiritual services	WTP category			Percent
	No	Yes	Total
Least important	1	34	35	9.5
More important	0	51	51	13.8
Most important	7	59	66	17.9
Somewhat important	0	27	27	7.3
Important	1	189	190	51.5
Total	9	360	369	100.0
Percent	2.4	97.6	100.0