Table 2:

Environmental Hazards Risk perception – OLS regression models

	Hazard Risk: Source Model 1 (β)	Hazard Risk: Likelihood Model 2 (β)	Hazard Risk: General Model 3 (β)
Social Capital	−0.065** (0.01)	−0.044** (0.01)	−0.04** (0.01)
Community Duration	−0.009 (0.02)	−0.003 (0.02)	−0.02 (0.02)
Awareness	0.311*** (0.02)	0.231*** (0.02)	0.487*** (0.02)
Perceived Knowledge	0.168*** (0.01)	0.115*** (0.01)	0.119*** (0.01)
Factual Knowledge	−0.003 (0.01)	0.04** (0.02)	−0.021 (0.02)
Health Experience	0.053** (0.02)	0.074** (0.02)	0.025 (0.02)
Chronic Health	0.015 (0.02)	0.029 (0.02)	0.032 (0.02)
Waste Proximity	0.008** (0.001)	0.012** (0.004)	0.017** (0.001)
Age	0.001* (0.001)	−0.004** (0.001)	0.002* (0.001)
Gender	0.096** (0.036)	0.084** (0.036)	0.083** (0.037)
Race (White)	−0.305*** (0.04)	−0.173*** (0.04)	−0.089** (0.04)
Income	−0.031** (0.012)	−0.026** (0.01)	−0.012 (0.012)
Education	−0.031 (0.02)	−0.019 (0.02)	−0.019 (0.02)
Political Ideology	−0.001 (0.01)	−0.005 (0.01)	−0.052*** (0.01)
Constant	2.87*** (0.11)	2.87*** (0.12)	2.93*** (0.12)
Observations	1120	1100	1140
R 2	0.399	0.281	0.49

Notes: Standardized coefficients reported Standard errors in parenthesis;

^*p<0.1

^**p<0.05

^***p<0.001