Table 4.
Regression beta weights and uniqueness indices for predictor variables.
| Predictor | Beta weights |
Uniqueness indices |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beta | t | Uniqueness index | F | |
| Size (# employees) | .28 | 8.08** | .070 | 70** |
| OSHA inspection experience last 5 years (Y/N) | .27 | 7.76** | .065 | 65** |
| Sector injury ratea | .19 | 5.4** | .031 | 31** |
| Hazard perceptionsb | .12 | 3.45* | .013 | 11* |
| Respondent age (# years) | −.02 | −0.63 | .001 | 1 |
| Educationc | .02 | 0.72 | .001 | 1 |
| Experience with current business (# years) | .02 | 0.50 | .000 | 0 |
a
Continuous: incidence rates by industry sector for nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work and by selected events exposures leading or to injury or illness, 2002 (BLS, 2003).
b
Dichotomous: relatively dangerous/about average or relatively safe.
c
Dichotomous: college diploma or more/less than diploma.
*
p < .001.
**
p < .0001.