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Table 6 Variables extracted from questionnaire Sect. 1 and optional Sect. 2 and used in quantitative analysis

From: An investigation into how accurately UK rabbit owners identify pain in their pet rabbits

Section

Variable

Definition

1

Age

Age of participant in years

Gender

Gender of participant (male, female or non-conforming)

Total number of rabbits owned

Total number of rabbits owned currently and previously

Work with rabbits

Whether the participant was currently working with rabbits (0/1)

Time been rabbit owner

How long the participant had been a rabbit owner (in years)

Experience of operations

Whether the participant had experienced an operation with one or more of their rabbits (0/1)

Total number of pain signs

Total number of pain signs listed by the participant

2

Total pain score

Sum of pain scores participant gave to all eight videos (out of 32)

Deviation from expert score

Sum of difference between participant score and the expert score, summed for all eight videos