2007 Summaries of Wildlife Research Findings - Minnesota State ...

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Section 7: Background Information
We gathered background information on the individuals who received the control and treatment
messages. On average, respondents had been hunting for small game for 33.5 years. There were no
significant differences among the control and treatment groups in the number of years hunting small game
(Table 7-1). Similarly, there were no significant differences among the groups in the proportion of
respondents who had hunted for small game in Minnesota in the past 5 years ( x = 97.1%) (Table 7-2),
nor in the proportion of respondents who had hunted for small game in the farmland zone in the past 5
years ( x = 75.4%) (Table 7-3). Likewise, there were no significant differences among the groups in
typical use of lead shot. About 60% of respondents used non-lead shot at least some of the time,
compared to about 40% of respondents who always used lead shot (Table 7-4). Finally, there was no
statistically significant difference in the age of respondents to the different treatments ( x = 46 years)
(Table 7-5).