Table 1. Questions assessing respondents' perceptions and behaviour relating to climate change, and socio-demographic variables; possible responses to the questions; and percentage responses of respondents (or other summary statistics, where noted) who answered yes and no to the question Have you adapted your forest management in response to climate change? (n = 828).
| Question | Response options | Have not adapted (n = 529) | Have adapted (n = 299) | Test statistics |
| 1. Do you think that the climate is changing to such an extent that it will substantially affect your forest? (n = 826) | Yes, definitely | 13.5% | 55.2% | W = 35431.5, p<2.2e-16 |
| Yes, probably | 38.5% | 36.7% | ||
| Do not know | 15.0% | 4.0% | ||
| Probably not | 30.5% | 4.0% | ||
| Definitely not | 2.5% | 0.0% | ||
| 2. Have you experienced any extreme weather conditions that you interpret as caused by long-term, global climate change? (n = 813) | Yes, definitely | 12.0% | 51.5% | W = 31993, p<2.2e-16 |
| Yes, probably | 17.9% | 24.2% | ||
| Do not know | 21.5% | 8.9% | ||
| Probably not | 42.5% | 14.3% | ||
| Definitely not | 6.1% | 1.0% | ||
| 3. When were you born? (n = 820) | 19__ | Mean 1951, range 1921–1985 | Mean 1955, range 1918–1983 | t = −4.132, d.f. = 652.646, p = 4.07e-05 |
| 4. What is your gender? (n = 827) | Man | 86.7% | 91.2% | χ2 = 3.310, d.f. = 1, p = 0.0689 |
| Woman | 13.3% | 8.8% | ||
| 5. What education do you have? (n = 820) | Elementary school or equivalent | 25.5% | 14.7% | χ2 = 24.239, d.f. = 5, p = 1.95e-4 |
| High school or equivalent | 12.8% | 7.2% | ||
| Professional education or equivalent | 38.7% | 50.5% | ||
| University education or equivalent | 18.3% | 21.5% | ||
| Professional education or equivalent and University education or equivalent | 4.7% | 6.1% | ||
| 6. How large share of the household's income (during 2009) came from the management unit? (n = 792) | <5% | 41.0% | 30.6% | W = 44102.5, p<2.2e-16 |
| 6–15% | 20.1% | 10.8% | ||
| 16–25% | 10.4% | 18.3% | ||
| 26–50% | 9.4% | 17.6% | ||
| 51–75% | 6.8% | 10.4% | ||
| 76–100% | 12.2% | 12.2% | ||
| 7. What is the size of your management unit? (n = 821) | Approximately _______ha | Median 49, range 0.90–8500 ha | Median 60, range 1.0–5500 ha | W = 598, p<2.2e-16 |
n = Numbers of responses. Test statistics for Wilcoxon rank sum test (W), Student's t-test (t), and χ2-test (χ2). Mean, median and ranges calculated from raw data before imputation.