Table 2

Participation, Total Trips, Demographics, and Recreation Activities across Treatment Groups during Prerecession (2005) and Recession (2009) Period

	Control Group		Treatment Group 1		Treatment Group 2		Treatment Group 3
	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.
Participation
Participation in 2005	0.675	0.469	0.600	0.491	0.571	0.499	0.620	0.488
Participation in 2009	0.675	0.469	0.665	0.474	0.746	0.439	0.609	0.491
Total Trips
Total trips in 2005	7.354	10.188	7.071	11.635	4.698	7.370	8.696	13.620
Total trips in 2009	6.933	9.927	6.806	9.771	5.619	7.458	7.620	11.046
Prerecession Year 2005: Demographics
Age	4.433	0.750	5.161	0.802	4.746	0.842	5.446	0.635
Gender	1.246	0.431	1.355	0.480	1.429	0.499	1.304	0.463
Education	3.384	1.002	3.271	1.089	3.175	1.025	3.337	1.132
Number of children in the household	0.939	1.210	0.310	0.717	0.492	0.840	0.185	0.592
Rural residence	0.153	0.360	0.103	0.305	0.095	0.296	0.109	0.313
Small town residence	0.211	0.408	0.213	0.411	0.302	0.463	0.152	0.361
Micropolitan residence	0.132	0.339	0.148	0.357	0.175	0.383	0.130	0.339
Metropolitan residence	0.504	0.500	0.535	0.500	0.429	0.499	0.609	0.491
Prerecession Year 2005: Recreation Preference Variables
Boat activities	0.553	0.498	0.426	0.496	0.429	0.499	0.424	0.497
Hunting	0.065	0.247	0.039	0.194	0.016	0.126	0.054	0.228
Fishing	0.512	0.500	0.503	0.502	0.492	0.504	0.511	0.503
Total number of trips	7.354	10.188	7.071	11.635	4.698	7.370	8.696	13.620
Take overnight trips	0.456	0.498	0.374	0.485	0.270	0.447	0.446	0.500

Note: Control group consists of 816 recreationist households that had been employed full-time both in the prerecession and recession years. Treatment group 1 includes 155 observations of households that became unemployed or retired during 2009. Treatment group 1 is split into treatment groups 2 (unemployed only) and 3 (retired only). Boat activities capture if a household owns a boat or participates in any boating activities such as jet skiing, canoeing, boating, and sailing.