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. 2024 Feb 23;9:1256751. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1256751

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics independent variables.

Mean/proportion Std. dev. Min Max
Individual-level independent variables
Gender (Female) 0.545 0.498 0 1
Ethnic minority 0.042 0.200 0 1
Religious minority 0.041 0.197 0 1
Sexual minority 0.012 0.109 0 1
Disability minority 0.026 0.158 0 1
Other minority 0.020 0.141 0 1
Personally experienced discrimination 0.179 0.383 0 1
Outgroup prejudice 4.374 2.176 1 10
Intergroup contact 2.610 1.598 0 6
Political left–right placement 5.227 2.076 1 10
National-level conditions
Antidiscrimination laws & policies 58.715 18.868 21 98
labor market integration laws & policies 64.802 16.106 32 89
Income inequality (GINI, lagged) 29.998 3.622 23.8 35.6
Belief prevalence discrimination 2.234 0.708 0 4
Belief unequal opportunities hiring 4.223 2.753 0 10
Individual-level control variables
Age 48.585 17.822 15 95
Education 19.117 3.637 13 26
Occupational class
Unemployed 0.081 0.273 0 1
Nonactive 0.409 0.492 0 1
Manual worker 0.121 0.326 0 1
Routine non-manual worker 0.205 0.404 0 1
Self-employed and small employers 0.039 0.194 0 1
Service class 0.146 0.353 0 1
Religious denomination
Non-believer 0.219 0.413 0 1
Catholic 0.410 0.492 0 1
Other Christian 0.341 0.474 0 1
Other denomination 0.030 0.172 0 1
Urbanization 0.039 0.194 0 1
Rural 0.314 0.464 0 1
Small or middle sized town 0.407 0.491 0 1
Large town 0.279 0.449 0 1
National-level control variables
GDP per capita (lagged) 39.843 14.522 18.023 108.761
Foreign-born population in % (lagged) 10.524 6.432 0.906 43.270

Sources data: EB 77.4 & 83.4 (individual-level), MIPEX (national-level policies), Eurostat (GINI, foreign-born population), Worldbank (GDP); n-individuals: 38,009, n-country-years: 52.