amendments. Other groups argued in favor of the bill and made no suggestions for changes (373 groups) or simply misunderstood the bill (five groups). This reduced the sample so we were able to estimate the impact of 1,314 group responses: 613 (47%) group responses resulted in full or partial accommodation by the ministry. Measures of group and policy type All interest groups responding to at least one consultation were given a unique ID number allowing us to trace their pattern of activity across all consultations. Business groups were defined as any group with private companies or industries as members. 136 (33%) out of 416 groups responding to consultations represent business, and they produced 694 responses to consultations, constituting 41% of the 1,692 responses in the data. The policy area of all bills was registered according to the codebook used by the policy agenda project (see: www.agendasetting.dk). The areas were then recoded depending on whether the area could best be classified as: 1) business regulation: agriculture, labor market, environment, energy, and business and consumer regulation; 2) general regulation: macroeconomics, civil rights, immigration, justice, housing, foreign affairs, EU, local and regional politics, and other; and 3) public sector regulation: the state church, health, education, culture and sports, traffic, defense, and research. In the multivariate analysis this variable is combined with the group type variable to create dummy variables for business groups and other groups respectively with regard to each policy area. Table 1 shows the distribution of the three policy types. Table 1 Policy types according to group responses and consultations
amendments. Other groups argued in favor of the bill and made no suggestions for changes (373 groups) or simply misunderstood the bill (five groups). This reduced the sample so we were able to estimate the impact of 1,314 group responses: 613 (47%) group responses resulted in full or partial accommodation by the ministry. Measures of group and policy type All interest groups responding to at least one consultation were given a unique ID number allowing us to trace their pattern of activity across all consultations. Business groups were defined as any group with private companies or industries as members. 136 (33%) out of 416 groups responding to consultations represent business, and they produced 694 responses to consultations, constituting 41% of the 1,692 responses in the data. The policy area of all bills was registered according to the codebook used by the policy agenda project (see: www.agendasetting.dk). The areas were then recoded depending on whether the area could best be classified as: 1) business regulation: agriculture, labor market, environment, energy, and business and consumer regulation; 2) general regulation: macroeconomics, civil rights, immigration, justice, housing, foreign affairs, EU, local and regional politics, and other; and 3) public sector regulation: the state church, health, education, culture and sports, traffic, defense, and research. In the multivariate analysis this variable is combined with the group type variable to create dummy variables for business groups and other groups respectively with regard to each policy area. Table 1 shows the distribution of the three policy types. Table 1 Policy types according to group responses and consultations
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