Economics Research International

Research Article

Econometric Analysis of Landscape Preferences in Canterbury, New Zealand

Table 3

Determinants of negative view of visual impact of dairy conversion.


Variable	Unit	Rural residents		Urban residents
Variable	Unit	d/d		d/d

Believes that dairy is important for economy	Dummy	−0.26***	(0.00)	−0.28***	(0.00)
Male	Dummy	−0.059	(0.39)	−0.026	(0.59)
Age	Years	−0.0040	(0.14)	0.0062***	(0.00)
Non-Māori NZ’er	Dummy	0.009	(0.94)	0.033	(0.65)
Māori	Dummy	−0.11	(0.54)	0.08	(0.52)
Canterbury residency	Years	0.0021	(0.32)	0.0004	(0.80)
Farm family	Dummy	−0.078	(0.36)	−0.022	(0.88)
Outdoors activities	Dummy	−0.18	(0.13)	0.12**	(2.50)

		237		475

Notes: estimated with a probit model. Additional controls for area of residency and travel patterns are included but not reported. Marginal effects reported. statistics based on heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors reported in parentheses. ***Significant at the 1% level; **significant at the 5% level; *significant at the 10% level. “Negative view” is defined as identifying dairy as being one of two largest changes and stating that the changes are negative.