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How important to you is sustaining the purity and quality of freshwater?
To what extent is the following value personally important to you? Please indicate your answer on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 means "not at all important" and 10 means "extremely important". Sustaining the purity and quality of freshwater.
Note: 0 means “not at all important” and 10 means “extremely important”.
Data by primary land use
| Primary land use | N | mean | sd | min | median | max |
|---|
| sheep and/or beef | 694 | 8.932 | 1.4 | 0 | 9.5 | 10 |
| dairy | 327 | 8.578 | 1.728 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
| deer & other stock | 54 | 9.241 | 1.359 | 3 | 10 | 10 |
| hort & vit | 167 | 9.108 | 1.247 | 4 | 10 | 10 |
| arable | 47 | 8.617 | 1.895 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
| forestry | 124 | 9.073 | 1.308 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| dairy support | 70 | 8.971 | 1.318 | 5 | 9.5 | 10 |
| other | 81 | 9.148 | 1.266 | 4 | 10 | 10 |
| Total | 1,564 | 8.902 | 1.469 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
Data by region
| Region | N | mean | sd | min | median | max |
|---|
| Auckland | 48 | 9.063 | 1.227 | 5 | 9.5 | 10 |
| Bay of Plenty | 84 | 8.845 | 1.639 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
| Canterbury | 278 | 8.824 | 1.661 | 0 | 9.5 | 10 |
| Gisborne | 38 | 8.474 | 1.39 | 5 | 9 | 10 |
| Hawke's Bay | 131 | 9.015 | 1.364 | 4 | 10 | 10 |
| Marlborough | 89 | 9.112 | 1.377 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| Manuwatu-Whanganui | 104 | 8.673 | 1.497 | 4 | 9 | 10 |
| Northland | 83 | 8.928 | 1.237 | 5 | 9 | 10 |
| Otago | 200 | 8.995 | 1.25 | 4 | 9 | 10 |
| Southland | 134 | 9.007 | 1.549 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Tasman & Nelson | 105 | 9.114 | 1.521 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Taranaki | 67 | 8.687 | 1.427 | 4 | 9 | 10 |
| Waikato | 116 | 8.81 | 1.554 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
| Wellington | 56 | 8.768 | 1.401 | 4 | 9 | 10 |
| West Coast | 31 | 8.935 | 1.315 | 5 | 9 | 10 |
| Total | 1,564 | 8.902 | 1.469 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
