Table 3 Descriptive statistics for the variables used in the analyses.

From: Structural equation modeling reveals decoupling of ecological and self-perceived outcomes in a garden box social-ecological system

Variable name

Mean

Median

Min

Max

S.D

% of missing

Variable type

Self-perceived outcome

Social benefits

2.72

3

0

8

1.97

41.32

Continuous

Individual benefits

4.83

5

1

8

1.78

41.32

Continuous

Ecological benefits

4.38

4

0

8

1.94

41.32

Continuous

Ecological outcome

Species diversity

3.22

3

0.60

8.33

1.66

8.27

Continuous

Economic value

1.47

1.01

0.001

11.77

1.56

8.27

Continuous

Quality

3.87

4

2

5

0.73

8.27

Continuous

Weeds

0.43

0.2

0

4.25

0.73

8.27

Continuous

Number of cultivations

0.73

0.46

0.03

5.21

0.76

8.27

Continuous

Area of cultivations

0.44

0.43

0.06

1.30

0.23

8.27

Continuous

Resource

Box number

2.71

2

1

15

2.44

0.83

Continuous

Effort

0.38

0

0

1

0.49

8.27

Binary

Shade

0.65

1

0

1

0.48

8.27

Binary

Privacy

0.45

0

0

1

0.50

8.27

Binary

Governance

Rules

0.48

0

0

1

0.50

63.64

Binary

Involvement

0.75

1

0

1

0.44

64.46

Binary

Actors

Group size

3.04

2

1

23

3.22

0

Continuous

Others number

2.45

2

0

15

2.92

41.32

Continuous

Starting year

1.7

2

0

3

1.22

0.83

Continuous

Damage

0.23

0

0

1

0.42

60.33

Binary

Worries

0.46

0

0

1

0.50

17.36

Binary

Social capital

3.41

3

0

8

1.71

41.32

Continuous

Evolutionary theory

Group meetings

4.31

5

1

6

1.61

60.33

Ordinal

Relatedness

0.40

0

0

1

0.49

0.83

Binary

Stability

0.28

0

0

1

0.45

41.32

Binary

  1. This table reports descriptive statistics on the outcome and predictor variables. The data for the 121 gardening groups consists of information from different sources (field, two questionnaires), which leads to varying amount of missing values reported here. The variables were treated in the analyses as continuous or binary. See the description for each variable in Table 2.