Fig 1.
Hypotheses to be tested in the research.
Table 1.
Attitudes citizens towards intensive animal production systems for laying hens, broilers and pigs from 5 EU countries (mean rank on a linear scale: 1 to 5 ± SD).
Table 2.
Risk and benefit perceptions of respondents in the five study countries regarding intensive broiler chicken systems (mean response on a linear scale 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) ± SD; n = 789).
Table 3.
Risk and benefit perceptions of respondents in the five study countries regarding intensive layer hen production systems (mean response on a linear scale 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) ± SD; n = 790).
Table 4.
Risk and benefit perceptions of respondents in the five study countries regarding intensive pig production systems (mean response on a linear scale 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) ± SD; n = 751).
Table 5.
Mean acceptability scores of interventions to control production diseases in broiler chickens (n = 789).
Table 6.
Mean acceptability scores of interventions to control production diseases in laying hens (n = 790).
Table 7.
Mean acceptability scores of interventions to control production diseases in pigs (n = 751).
Table 8.
The five variables included in the structural equation modelling analysis.
Table 9.
Goodness of fit statistics for the structural equation modelling for each animal type.
Table 10.
Direct effects of the SEM model presented in Fig 1, for broilers, layer hens and pigs.