Table 3. Differences on preoccupation levels regarding economics topics by socio-demographic cohorts.

	Stock crash	Supply chain problem	Higher energy prices	Higher inflation	Higher corruption	Higher poverty
Sex
Male	2.286 **	1.217	0.819	2.053 **	2.068 **	3.113 ***
Female
Level of study
Undergraduate	1.076	1.901 *	0.715	0.616	-1.032	0.428
Postgraduate
Field of study
Social Sciences	1.141	1.18	0.78	0.801	0.158	0.321
Applied Sciences
Natural and Life Sciences
Community type
Urban	2.103	0.036	1.237	1.62	3.53	1.221
Suburban
Rural
Economic status
Above average	5.61 *	2.328	2.402	7.875 **	4.546	6.488 **
Average
Below average
Job status
Full-time	0.568	1.03	0.813	0.306	1.339	0.422
Part-time
No

Note: Z-score for groups of two categories (Mann-Whitney U test) and H-statistic for groups of 3 (Kruskal-Wallis test).

^***p < 0.01.

^**p < 0.05.

^*p < 0.1.