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EM Identity and Description

EM ID variable.detail.emIdHelp ?	EM-177
Document Author variable.detail.emDocumentAuthorHelp ?	Knowler, D.J., MacGregor, B.W., Bradford, M.J., Peterman, R.M
Document Year variable.detail.emDocumentYearHelp ?	2003

Variable General Info

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Commercial catchability [fish]	Habitat concerns index	Net salmon price	Ocean survival rate [fish]	Productivity parameter ? Comment: number of smolts produced per spawner	Social discount rate	Total southern British Columbia fisheries catch attributable t the Straight of Georgia fishery	Variable fishing cost	Wild smolt annual abundance contributing to the southern British Columbia (BC) fishery ? Comment: Estimated in this study for the 1977-1990 brood years.
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?	2560	2564	2558	2559	2556	2561	8050	2557	8049
Symbol variable.detail.varSymbolHelp ?	q	HCI	p	m	a	r	Not reported	c	Not reported
Qualitative-Quantitative variable.detail.continuousCategoricalHelp ?	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Qualitative (Class, Rating or Ranking)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)	Quantitative (Cardinal Only)
Cardinal-Ordinal variable.detail.cardinalOrdinalHelp ?	Cardinal	Ordinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal
Units variable.detail.varUnitsHelp ?	Proportion caught per unit effort per year	Not applicable	$ fish^-1	%	smolts per spawner	% yr^-1	%	$ vessel-day^-1	ind.

Variable Typology

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Commercial catchability [fish]	Habitat concerns index	Net salmon price	Ocean survival rate [fish]	Productivity parameter ? Comment: number of smolts produced per spawner	Social discount rate	Total southern British Columbia fisheries catch attributable t the Straight of Georgia fishery	Variable fishing cost	Wild smolt annual abundance contributing to the southern British Columbia (BC) fishery ? Comment: Estimated in this study for the 1977-1990 brood years.
Predictor-Intermediate-Response variable.detail.displayVariableTypeHelp ?	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor	Predictor
Predictor Variable Type variable.detail.displayPredictorVariableTypeHelp ?	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter	Constant or Parameter
Response Variable Type variable.detail.resClassHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Data Source/Type variable.detail.dataTypeHelp ?	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales)	Local Field/Lab Data (e.g., particular to the EM study)	Transferred Values (e.g., from literature; transferred spatially, temporally or across scales) ? Comment: from: Simpson et al. 1999 for 1980-1998.	Map or database (e.g., wide coverage, wide availability, measured or modeled)	Local field/Lab data (e.g., particular to the EM study)
Variable Classification Hierarchy variable.detail.vchLevel1Help ?	6. Non-monetary Indicators of Human Demand, Use or Benefit of Ecosystem Goods and Services	4. Human-Produced Stressor or Enhancer of Ecosystem Goods and Services Production	7. Monetary Values	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services	7. Monetary Values	6. Non-monetary Indicators of Human Demand, Use or Benefit of Ecosystem Goods and Services	7. Monetary Values	5. Ecosystem Attributes and Potential Supply of Ecosystem Goods and Services
	--Demand for or use of provisioning services-Nutrition and ingestion	--Generalized (e.g., multimetric or nonspecific) indices of human disturbance of ecosystems	--Commercial or subsistence harvested good value, price or production cost	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components	--Discount rate	--Demand for or use of provisioning services-Nutrition and ingestion	--Commercial or subsistence harvested good value, price or production cost	--Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of living ecosystem components
	----Wild animals and their outputs		----Fishing, hunting, furs, and pelts	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of fauna	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of fauna		----Wild animals and their outputs	----Fishing, hunting, furs, and pelts	----Biological characteristics, processes or requirements of fauna
				------Fish	------Fish				------Fish

Variable Spatial Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Commercial catchability [fish]	Habitat concerns index	Net salmon price	Ocean survival rate [fish]	Productivity parameter ? Comment: number of smolts produced per spawner	Social discount rate	Total southern British Columbia fisheries catch attributable t the Straight of Georgia fishery	Variable fishing cost	Wild smolt annual abundance contributing to the southern British Columbia (BC) fishery ? Comment: Estimated in this study for the 1977-1990 brood years.
Spatial Extent Area variable.detail.spExtentHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatially Distributed? variable.detail.spDistributedHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Observations Spatially Patterned? variable.detail.regularSpGrainHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatial Grain Type variable.detail.spGrainTypeHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatial Grain Size variable.detail.spGrainSizeHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Spatial Density variable.detail.spDensityHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables ? Comment: 16 South Thompson River streams	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
EnviroAtlas URL variable.detail.enviroAtlasURLHelp ?	Big game hunting recreation demand	GAP Ecological Systems					Big game hunting recreation demand

Variable Temporal Characteristics

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Commercial catchability [fish]	Habitat concerns index	Net salmon price	Ocean survival rate [fish]	Productivity parameter ? Comment: number of smolts produced per spawner	Social discount rate	Total southern British Columbia fisheries catch attributable t the Straight of Georgia fishery	Variable fishing cost	Wild smolt annual abundance contributing to the southern British Columbia (BC) fishery ? Comment: Estimated in this study for the 1977-1990 brood years.
Temporal Extent variable.detail.tempExtentHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporally Distributed? variable.detail.tempDistributedHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Regular Temporal Grain? variable.detail.regularTempGrainHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporal Grain Size Value variable.detail.tempGrainSizeValHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporal Grain Size Units variable.detail.tempGrainSizeUnitHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Temporal Density variable.detail.tempDensityHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables

Variable Values

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Commercial catchability [fish]	Habitat concerns index	Net salmon price	Ocean survival rate [fish]	Productivity parameter ? Comment: number of smolts produced per spawner	Social discount rate	Total southern British Columbia fisheries catch attributable t the Straight of Georgia fishery	Variable fishing cost	Wild smolt annual abundance contributing to the southern British Columbia (BC) fishery ? Comment: Estimated in this study for the 1977-1990 brood years.
Units variable.detail.estUnitHelp ?	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not reported	Not applicable	Not reported
Min Value variable.detail.minEstHelp ?	Not applicable	varies by run; see runs for values	Not applicable	not applicable	not applicable	Not applicable	Not reported	Not applicable	Not reported
Max Value variable.detail.estHelp ?	Not applicable	varies by run; see runs for values	Not applicable	not applicable	not applicable	Not applicable	Not reported	Not applicable	Not reported
Other Value Type variable.detail.natureOtherEstHelp ?	Parameter value	Not applicable	Parameter value	Parameter value	Parameter value	Parameter value	Parameter value	Parameter value	Parameter value
Other Value variable.detail.otherEstHelp ?	0.00003	varies by run; see runs for values	10.50	20	40	5.0	20.3	109	16,993,577

Variable Variability and Sensitivity

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?	Commercial catchability [fish]	Habitat concerns index	Net salmon price	Ocean survival rate [fish]	Productivity parameter ? Comment: number of smolts produced per spawner	Social discount rate	Total southern British Columbia fisheries catch attributable t the Straight of Georgia fishery	Variable fishing cost	Wild smolt annual abundance contributing to the southern British Columbia (BC) fishery ? Comment: Estimated in this study for the 1977-1990 brood years.
Variability Expression Given? variable.detail.variabilityExpHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Variability Metric variable.detail.variabilityMetricHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Value variable.detail.variabilityValueHelp ?	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Variability Units	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Resampling Used? variable.detail.bootstrappingHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables
Variability Expression Used in Modeling? variable.detail.variabilityUsedHelp ?	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables	Not recorded for Constant or Factor Variables

Variable Operational Validation (Response Variables only)

Name variable.detail.varNameHelp ?
Variable ID variable.detail.varIdHelp ?
Validated? variable.detail.resValidatedHelp ?
Validation Approach (within, between, etc.) variable.detail.validationApproachHelp ?
Validation Quality (Qual/Quant) variable.detail.validationQualityHelp ?
Validation Method (Stat/Deviance) variable.detail.validationMethodHelp ?
Validation Metric variable.detail.validationMetricHelp ?
Validation Value variable.detail.validationValHelp ?
Validation Units
Use of Measured Response Data variable.detail.measuredResponseDataHelp ?

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Validation Method (Stat/Deviance)

Validation Metric

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Use of Measured Response Data

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Variables Details

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EM-177: Valuing freshwater salmon habitat on the west coast of Canada

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