## 3 Results
### Effect of Demographic and Social Factors  
Demographic and social factors of users may play an important role in environmental evaluation, especially in soundscape evaluation [12]. The result of sound satisfaction for Chinese and Croatian respondents in terms of gender, age, living place, education, visit frequency and visit purpose is shown respectively in Figure 5. As for gender, female respondents have a little higher evaluation score than male in both countries, with an average score for sound satisfaction 0.25 and 0.64 for female, and 0.17 and 0.56 for male respondents in China and Croatia respectively. As for age, respondents of 55-64 years old in Croatia rated their sound satisfaction (average score of 1.17) higher than other age groups (excluding age group of older than 64). This result is also consistent with [PERSON] [34]. Contrary to Croatia, respondents 55-64 years old in China evaluated their sound satisfaction (0) lower than other age groups (excluding age group of older than 64). As for education, Chinese respondents with secondary education and above have similar sound satisfaction (0.14), which is lower than the group with primary education (0.91). In Croatia, respondents with postgraduate education have the slightly lowest evaluation of sound satisfaction among groups of education (0.48). As for living places, non-local residents has a little higher evaluation score (0.39 and 0.66), than that of local people (0.09 and 0.58) for local people in China and Croatia respectively. As for visit frequency, for Chinese places,  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Chinese inland Spaces with**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Chinese Coastal Spaces**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Crostian Inland Spaces**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Crostian Coastal Spaces with**} \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Kaiser-Meyer-Olikin Measure of Sampling**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**with Kaiser-Meyer-Olikin Measure of Sampling**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**with Kaiser-Meyer-Olikin Measure of Sampling**} \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Adequacy: 0.85\%**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Adequacy: 0.87\%**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Adequacy: 0.82\%**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Adequacy: 0.82\%**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Adequacy: 0.86\%**} \\  & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Cumulative: 64.1\%**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Cumulative: 62.4\%**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Cumulative: 61.3\%**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Cumulative: 69.3\%**} \\ \hline \multirow{3}{*}{Environmental indicators} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 3 & 4 \\  & (25.9\%) & (21.5\%) & (16.6\%) & (22.7\%) & (20.7\%) & (19.0\%) & (22.7\%) & (20.7\%) & (16.7\%) & (22.9\%) & (1  
people who visit public spaces very often have the lowest evaluation of sound satisfaction (\(-0.22\)); meanwhile, people who visit public spaces for first time have the highest score (0.63). For Croatian places, respondents who visit spaces rarely have the lowest evaluation (0.36). As for visit purpose, in both countries, the score is the highest for the purpose of travelling among all the groups, with scores 0.53 and 0.79 in China and Croatia respectively. The lowest satisfaction evaluation was given by the group of passing by in China (\(-0.02\)), and the group of other purpose in Croatia (0.39). The reason could be that people did not feel involved in open public spaces. The relationship and significant differences of sound satisfaction, overall environment satisfaction, soundscape indicators, and importance of tranquility with demographic and social factors are examined respectively as shown in Table 6, and the related demographic/social factors are listed from high to low in terms of correlation coefficients. It is demonstrated that sound satisfaction is significantly related to visit purpose for China (\(p<0.01\)) and Croatia (\(p<0.05\)) respectively. Meanwhile, it is related to overall environmental satisfaction for both countries. This is mainly because visitors felt fresh and involved for the first time.