Basic socioeconomic conditions of the 220 randomly sampled rural households in Wolong Nature Reserve in 1998 and 2006a.

aThe overall response rates in 1998 for cropland and income questions were 95.5% and 99.1%, respectively, and those in 2006 were 87.6% and 84.8%, respectively.bStudent's t test was used to compare cropland and income between tourism and non-tourism households. The signs *, ** and *** represent significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% levels respectively.c1 Mu = 0.0667 Ha.dStandard deviation is shown in parentheses.eThe income measurements in tourism development stage have been inflation-adjusted.fStandard rural poverty lines published by Chinese government in 1999 and 2006 [80], [81] are used.