Enhancing the interpretation of stated choice analysis through the application of verbal protocol assessment
Cahill KL, Marion JL, Lawson SR. 2007. Enhancing the interpretation of stated choice analysis through the application of verbal protocol assessment. Journal of Leisure Research. 39(2):201-221
Questionnaires were given to randomly chosen visitors on 8 random days between 1 July and 15 August 2002 in the Jordan Pond area. Abstract: "A stated choice survey was employed to evaluate the relative importance of resource, social, and management attributes by asking visitors to select preferred configurations of these attributes. A verbal protocol assessment was added to consider how respondents interpret and respond to stated choice questions applied to hikers of a popular trail at Acadia National Park. Results suggest that visitors are sensitive to changes in public access to the trail and its ecological conditions, with level of encounters least important. Verbal protocol results identified considerations made by respondents that provide insight to their evaluations of alternative recreation setting configurations. These insights help clarify issues important to visitors that stated choice results on their own do not provide.". STUDY LOCATIONS:/ MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/ Jordan Pond.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Cahill, Kerri; Marion, Jeffery; Lawson, Steven
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Attitudes, Behavior, Human Impacts, Jordan Pond, Landscape (Natural), Mount Desert Island, Planning, Recreation, Terrestrial, Trails, Visitor Impacts, Visitor Use, Visitors, Vistas