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Table 8: Participants' interest and involvement in the Great Lakes

  Participants1 882
  Respondents2 610
  Response rate 69.2%

    Number Percentage
Interest3
  Boating 213 34.9%
  Cottage 118 19.3%
  Fishing 167 27.4%
  Hunting 38 6.2%
  Swimming 230 37.7%
  Wildlife-watching 190 31.1%
  Agriculture 32 5.2%
  Environment 429 70.3%
  Commercial fishing 60 9.8%
  Industry 48 7.9%
  Shipping 48 7.9%
  Other 80 13.1%
  Not specified 43 7.0%
Group membership3
  Environment 187 30.7%
  Recreation 50 8.2%
  Professional 31 5.1%
  Industry 19 3.1%
  Other non-governmental organization 56 9.2%
  Intergovernmental group 32 5.2%
  Government 58 9.5%
  Other 126 20.7%
  Not specified 84 13.8%

1 Number of participants counted at the meetings (does not include IJC personnel or contractors) and who registered for the Web dialogue (includes IJC personnel or contractors who registered for the dialogue).

2 Respondents to a voluntary, non-identifying survey that was handed out at the meetings and on registration in the Web dialogue. Not all those who attended the meetings completed the survey, though all the Web dialogue participants did. Some respondents did not answer all the questions.

3 The total does not equal 100 because respondents were asked to check all that applied, and may have checked more than one item or none.

 

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