. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Environ Manage. 2013 Jan 4;51(3):511–523. doi: 10.1007/s00267-012-0005-5

Table 2.

e-Delphi panel composition, response rates, and convergence measures

	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Surveys delivered	129	58	38
Survey completed	58	38	37
Government panelists	36	25	19
Academic panelists	39	14	9
Non-governmental panelists	25	10	5
Commercial/Private panelists	29	9	4
Response rate	45 %	66 %	97 %
Convergence measures
Mean score^a	n/a	4.3	4.4
Standard deviation	n/a	0.85	0.71

Value typology relevance scores measured on a five-point Likert-type scale where: 5 = very appropriate, 4 = appropriate, 3 = somewhat appropriate, 2 = not very appropriate, 1 = not appropriate