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. 2020 Aug 17;76(4):1117–1138. doi: 10.1007/s10640-020-00477-2

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of relevant survey responses

All Population group
Young men Young women Old men Old women
Change in planned contacts 3.49 3.81*** 3.14*** 3.55 3.59
(15-point Likert scale) (3.59) (3.43) (3.42) (3.76) (4.10)
Change in planned hand cleaning effort 11.46 10.92*** 11.54 11.85** 12.06***
(15-point Likert scale) (3.30) (3.36) (3.30) (2.96) (3.38)
Support for gov. regulation (in %)
Are too much 0.09 0.12*** 0.09 0.06** 0.05***
(0.28) (0.32) (0.29) (0.24) (0.21)
Are appropriate 0.31 0.34** 0.29* 0.33 0.27*
(0.46) (0.47) (0.45) (0.47) (0.44)
Are too little 0.60 0.54*** 0.62 0.61 0.69***
(0.49) (0.50) (0.49) (0.49) (0.46)
Change wrt. regulation (in %)
Less than required 0.07 0.09*** 0.06 0.07 0.03***
(0.25) (0.29) (0.24) (0.25) (0.17)
According to regulations 0.30 0.34*** 0.32* 0.21*** 0.24**
(0.46) (0.47) (0.47) (0.41) (0.43)
More than required 0.63 0.57*** 0.62 0.72*** 0.73***
(0.48) (0.50) (0.49) (0.45) (0.44)
Observations 3,448 1118 1297 551 482

The table shows mean values and standard deviations in parentheses. Change in planned contacts and planned hand cleaning effort was elicited with a logarithmic Likert scale as described in the main text. Stars indicate the significance of the mean values to the average mean values of the other groups (t-tests). *p<0.1, **p<0.05, ***p<0.01