Table 1.
Perceptions of risk in different nanotechnology applications across stakeholder groups
| Public | Academic | Government | Business | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Risk | n ^ | % | 95% LCI | 95% UCI | n | % | 95% LCI | 95% UCI | n | % | 95% LCI | 95% UCI | n | % | 95% LCI | 95% UCI |
| Health | Agree | 798 | 65.7 | 62.2 | 69.2 | 71 | 26.7 | 21.4 | 32.0 | 4 | 21.1 | 2.2 | 39.9 | 1 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 14.8 |
| Food | Agree | 1054 | 84.8 | 82.3 | 87.3 | 144 | 55.4 | 49.3 | 61.4 | 6 | 33.3 | 10.9 | 55.8 | 4 | 20.0 | 2.0 | 38.0 |
| Cosmetics/sunscreen | Agree | 913 | 72.2 | 69.0 | 75.4 | 107 | 39.5 | 33.6 | 45.3 | 8 | 44.4 | 20.8 | 68.1 | 2 | 10.5 | 0.0 | 24.7 |
| Medicines | Agree | 866 | 70.8 | 67.5 | 74.0 | 88 | 32.6 | 27.0 | 38.2 | 3 | 15.8 | 0.0 | 32.6 | 1 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 14.8 |
| Pesticides | Agree | 808 | 63.8 | 60.3 | 67.3 | 106 | 39.0 | 33.2 | 44.8 | 6 | 35.3 | 11.9 | 58.7 | 5 | 23.8 | 5.1 | 42.5 |
| Tennis racquets/computers | Agree | 510 | 39.6 | 36.1 | 43.0 | 20 | 6.8 | 3.9 | 9.7 | 2 | 10.5 | 0.0 | 24.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
^n = number of ‘agreed’ (don’t know/refused removed).