Table 6.
Rating (1 to 5 scale 1) of the effectiveness of ‘Animal–based’ indicators according to each Expert category (means) (source: [71]).
| Indicators of | Public authorities | Civil society | Farming community | Chain actors |
Researchers/ advisers |
P-value (F-test) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal behavior | 4.4 ab | 4.5 ab | 4.1 bc | 4.1 c | 4.5 a | 0.020 |
| Animal health | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 0.196 |
| How the animal responds to how it is fed | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 0.627 |
| How the animal responds to how it is housed | 4.2 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 0.219 |
1 1 = the lowest effectiveness, to 5 = the highest effectiveness; a,b,c within a row, different letters indicate statistically significant differences (P < 0.05).