Table 4: Respondents’ ratings of credibility of forest products industry information sources

May 4, 2017 Spire 2017 Issue
Mill Town and Statewide respondents’ Likert scale ratings of how believable each organization is as a credible source of information about the forest products industry, by percent of respondents.

(1=not at all believable, and 7=very believable)
Environmental groups
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 516 13.2 18.0 18.6 22.9 15.9 7.0 4.5 3.49 (1.64) -2.557 0.011
Statewide 490 8.2 16.5 20.8 22.9 14.9 11.4 5.3 3.75 (1.62)
Business groups
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 517 8.5 14.7 23.4 29.6 15.1 6.8 1.9 3.56 (1.41) 0.849 0.396
Statewide 488 7.4 15.2 26.0 32.6 12.1 5.1 1.6 3.49 (1.32)
University researchers
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 517 1.5 2.1 4.4 15.7 21.9 33.3 21.1 5.38 (1.34) -0.512 0.609
Statewide 489 0.8 1.2 4.3 14.5 26.2 34.2 18.8 5.42 (1.23)
Federal forest services
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean t p
Mill Town 519 1.9 3.9 8.1 23.3 23.3 24.3 15.2 4.96 (1.44) 0.291 0.771
Statewide 484 1.7 2.9 8.1 22.9 28.9 24.0 11.6 4.93 (1.34)
State forest services
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 516 1.9 1.7 3.7 17.6 23.8 30.8 20.3 5.34 (1.34) -0.969 0.333
Statewide 489 0.8 1.8 4.1 14.3 25.2 35.6 18.2 5.41 (1.24)
Media
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 521 13.8 21.1 19.8 29.4 10.0 4.2 1.7 3.20 (1.44) 0.395 0.693
Statewide 487 15.0 18.1 22.2 30.2 10.3 3.3 1.0 3.17 (1.39)
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n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 517 1.0 1.4 4.4 11.4 20.5 37.3 24.0 5.57 (1.26) -0.053 0.958
Statewide 488 0.4 1.2 3.7 12.1 23.4 36.9 22.3 5.57 (1.19)
Forest products industry
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 518 4.6 6.9 14.3 20.5 22.6 20.5 10.6 4.53 (1.60) 2.447 0.015
Statewide 486 3.3 8.2 17.3 26.1 23.3 15.4 6.4 4.30 (1.46)
Other
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 56 7.1 7.1 10.7 19.6 16.1 19.6 19.6 4.68 (1.83) 1.264 0.212
Statewide 30 23.3 10.0 6.7 13.3 6.7 23.3 16.7 4.07 (2.2