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). *, **, ***