Table 3.

Presentation of statistically significant differences in hunting acceptance across demographic categories (α = 0.05 denoted by “*”).

Statement	Reasons/Choices	Age		Gender		Education		Pet Ownership		Visited a Livestock Operation		Visited a Fair
		45 And Older	Under 45	Female	Male	Did not Graduate College	College Graduate	Non Pet Owner	Pet Owner	Have not Visited	Have Visited	Have not visited	Have Visited
Finds Reason to Hunt Acceptable
Finds Reason Acceptable	Obtain Food	88	85	86	88	80	87	86	87	83 *	90 *	79 *	91 *
	Trophy Hunting	63	37	31 *	43 *	38	36	38	36	32 *	42 *	32	39
	Wildlife Population Control	74	69	69 *	75 *	68	73	72	71	66 *	77 *	63 *	76 *
	Reduce Predator Population	66	66	63 *	70 *	62	67	67	66	60 *	72 *	56 *	71 *
	Control Crop Damage	64	62	59 *	68 *	62	64	65	62	59 *	67 *	56 *	67 *
Agree Practices Reduce Animal Welfare
Hunting over bait	Agree/Neutral/Disagree	58 *	72 *	55 *	75 *	57 *	68 *	59 *	68 *	55 *	74 *	58 *	69 *
	I don’t know enough to respond	42 *	28 *	45 *	25 *	43 *	33 *	41 *	32 *	45 *	26 *	43 *	31 *
Captive hunt	Agree/Neutral/Disagree	63 *	74 *	59 *	78 *	61 *	71 *	60 *	73 *	58 *	78 *	60 *	73 *
	I don’t know enough to respond	37 *	26 *	41 *	22 *	39 *	29 *	40 *	27 *	43 *	22 *	40 *	27 *
Hunting in wildlife preserve	Agree/Neutral/Disagree	73	78	68 *	82 *	68 *	78 *	67 *	79 *	63 *	86 *	63 *	81 *
	I don’t know enough to respond	28	22	32 *	18 *	32 *	23 *	33 *	21 *	37 *	14 *	37 *	19 *
Trapping	Agree/Neutral/Disagree	71 *	79 *	69 *	81 *	68 *	77 *	67 *	79 *	63 *	85 *	64 *	80 *
	I don’t know enough to respond	29 *	21 *	32 *	19 *	32 *	23 *	33 *	21 *	37 *	15 *	36 *	20 *
Use of dogs	Agree/Neutral/Disagree	71 *	77 *	67 *	81 *	68 *	76 *	66 *	78 *	62 *	85 *	63 *	79 *
	I don’t know enough to respond	29 *	23 *	33 *	19 *	32 *	24 *	34 *	22 *	38 *	15 *	37 *	21 *

Note 1. In the interest of brevity, the values representing the percentage of individuals in each category who did not find the practice acceptable or who did not report the group having a high ability to ensure the welfare of hunt animals has been omitted. Because the values in each column must necessarily sum to 100, omitted variables can be calculated. For example, 88.2% of those age 45 and over reported finding hunting for food acceptable. Thus, 11.8% of respondents age 45 and over did not find hunting for food acceptable. Note 2: The numbers appear in bold when there is a statistically significant difference at the 5% level. Note 3: For the purposes of this table with respect to whether the respondent agreed that the practice reduces animal welfare, those respondents selecting very strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and very strongly disagree that the surveyed practices reduce animal welfare were combined into a single category called Agree/Neutral/Disagree. Note 4: For the purposes of this table, those respondents who responded that a group had high ability or very high ability were combined into a single category and are presented in this table. The remaining categories were omitted for brevity and can be calculated according to Note 1.