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Table 3 Some characteristics of the respondents by region of residence: percentages corrected for stratified sampling

From: Use of residential wood heating in a context of climate change: a population survey in Québec (Canada)

 

Region of residence

Variables

Eastern Québec

Northern part of southern Québec

Centre of the province

Québec City region

South of Montréal

North of Montréal

Montréal and Laval

Type of dwelling:

       

• House

87.4%1

78.8%

76.0%

67.2%

73.8%

85.0%

38.4%

• Apartment

12.6%

21.2%

24.0%

32.9%

26.3%

15.0%

61.6%

First language learned at home:

       

• French only

96.0%

95.0%

96.2%

93.4%

86.1%

85.3%

60.8%

• other than French only

4.0%

5.0%

3.8%

6.6%

13.9%

14.7%

39.2%

Region of residence perceived as conducive to cold waves:

       

• a lot

27.0%

41.5%

23.3%

31.9%

34.6%

33.9%

41.1%

• Average

44.6%

39.9%

55.1%

49.6%

46.9%

46.8%

40.8%

• not much

19.3%

17.1%

16.0%

16.0%

15.4%

15.0%

14.1%

• not at all

9.2%

1.6%

5.6%

2.5%

3.2%

4.3%

4.0%

Region of residence perceived as conducive to winter smog:

       

• a lot

5.4%

0.6%

1.2%

3.3%

6.6%

4.4%

15.4%

• Average

12.4%

8.8%

19.2%

17.2%

22.5%

20.3%

31.5%

• not much

21.9%

21.4%

28.7%

33.5%

29.1%

29.4%

29.6%

• not at all

60.3%

69.3%

50.9%

46.1%

41.8%

45.9%

23.5%

Wood heating:

       

• Yes

35.0%

34.8%

30.7%

23.0%

21.9%

24.9%

4.0%

• No

65.0%

65.2%

69.3%

77.0%

78.1%

75.2%

96.0%

Prohibition of wood heating when there is winter smog:

       

• completely agree

26.2%

33.8%

29.8%

27.5%

36.1%

37.3%

48.5%

• do not completely agree

73.8%

66.2%

70.2%

72.5%

63.9%

62.7%

51.5%

Belief of the contribution of anthropogenic causes to climate change in the last fifty years:

       

• average or a lot

79.3%

76.9%

82.8%

78.0%

85.2%

85.0%

84.1%

• not much or not at all

20.7%

23.1%

17.2%

22.0%

14.8%

15.0%

15.9%

  1. 1The total percentages for a given variable may not be exactly 100%, due to rounding to the closest decimal.
  2. To simplify the presentation, percentages below 2% for missing data have not been reported.