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. 2012 Apr 25;7(4):e35420. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035420

Table 8. Estimated effects of household-level tourism participation on local residents' overall attitudes toward tourism development.

Mean scorea , b (SD) Coefficientsc (SE)
Household type Tourism Non-tourism Weighted Unweighted
1. There are conflicts between tourism development and conservation in the reserve. −0.54 (1.66) −1.37 (1.17) −0.6143 ** (0.2271) −0.6382 ** (0.2654)
2. Overall tourism development is good for the reserve. 1.85 (0.49) 1.95 (0.28) −0.0819 (0.0508) −0.0866 (0.0656)
a

Five-point Likert scale: −2. Strongly disagree; −1. Disagree; 0. Neutral; 1. Agree; 2. Strongly agree.

b

The sample sizes for tourism and non-tourism households are 46 and 114 (Q1) and 55 and 134 (Q2), respectively.

c

The signs ** represents significance at the 1% level.