Table 1.

Demographic information of the respondents of our survey (4666 responses).

Question	Response Option	No. 1	% 2	Mean	SD
Sex	No wish to answer = 0	148	3.17	1.43	0.56
	Female = 1	2360	50.6
	Male = 2	2158	46.2
Age	18–30 years of age = 1	2149	46.1	1.76	0.79
	31–50 years of age = 2	1470	31.5
	>51 years of age = 3	1047	22.4
Education	No wish to answer = 0	141	3.02	2.12	0.84
	Primary/High/Engineer school = 1	695	14.9
	College = 2	2596	55.6
	Master = 3	951	20.4
	PhD = 4	283	6.07
Activity area	Meat scientist = 1	276	5.92	3.46	0.96
	Other scientist = 2	760	16.3
	Meat worker = 3	164	3.51
	Others = 4	3466	74.3
Monthly net income	No wish to answer = 0	1026	21.9	2.35	1.82
	<1 k yuan (155 USD) 3 = 1	816	17.5
	1 k–3 k (155–464 USD) = 2	549	11.8
	3 k–5 k (464–773 USD) = 3	834	17.9
	5 k–8 k (773–1236 USD) = 4	945	20.2
	8 k–10 k (1236–1546 USD) = 5	210	4.50
	>10 k (1546 USD) = 6	286	6.13
Meat consumption	Never: vegetarian or vegan diet = 1	157	3.36	3.08	0.86
	Rarely: weekly or less = 2	1099	23.6
	Regularly: several times a week = 3	1631	34.9
	Daily or within each meal = 4	1779	38.1
Familiarity 4	Yes = 1	2611	55.9	1.44	0.50
	No = 2	2055	44.1

¹ No.: number of responses; ² %: percentage of responses; ³ yuan: Chinese yuan renminbi (CNY), 1 CNY = 0.15 USD (American dollar); 1 CNY = 0.13 Euros, on 21 January 2021; ⁴ Familiarity: have you heard about artificial meat?