Table 2.
How factors explaining public opinion on alcohol policies relate to one another, OLS regression models.
|
Dependent variables |
M1 Alcohol consumption frequency |
M2 Knowledge index |
M3 Problem perception – personal |
M4 Problem perception – in society |
M5 Left–right ideology |
M6 Alcohol liberalism |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social characteristics | ||||||
| Gender: female = 1 | –6*** | –3** | +0 | –5*** | –4* | –2 |
| Age: young (< 30 years) = 1 | –7*** | +1 | +8*** | +4* | –2 | +1 |
| Age: old (> 65) = 1 | +7*** | +1 | +1 | –4* | +1 | +6* |
| Household income: high = 1 | +7*** | +1 | +2 | +0 | +5* | –1 |
| Household income: low = 1 | –6*** | –2 | –2 | –2 | +0 | +2 |
| Education: high = 1 | +8*** | +3* | –1 | –2 | –2 | –6** |
| “Class”: blue-collar home = 1 | –4*** | –05** | –4* | +0 | –8*** | +4 |
| “Class”: business owner/farmer = 1 | +2 | –4* | +2 | +1 | +10** | +4 |
| Geography: village, rural area =1 | –3*** | +2 | –1 | +0 | –3 | –0 |
| Geography: city =1 | +7*** | +1 | –2 | –1 | –5* | +3 |
| Nationality: grown up abroad = 1 | –9*** | –9*** | –4 | +7** | –8** | +14*** |
| Religiosity: prays to God, scale 0 (never)–1 (several times per week) | –9*** | –1 | –4 | –2 | +9** | –7* |
| Alcohol consumption | ||||||
| Alcohol consumption frequency: scale 0 (never)–1 (several times per week) | –1 | +19*** | +9*** | –2 | +4 | |
| Alcohol consumption: abstainer = 1 | +1 | –29*** | +2 | +2 | –3 | |
| Knowledge, perception, experience | ||||||
| Own experience of someone close drinking too much = 1 | –0 | –2 | –2 | –1 | –2 | |
| Knowledge about alcohol: index scale 0 (low)–1 (high) | –6 | +2 | –7 | +12* | ||
| Problem perception of alcohol consumption – personal: scale 0–1 | +36*** | –1 | +3 | |||
| Problem perception of alcohol consumption – in society: scale 0–1 | +13** | +30*** | ||||
| Ideology | ||||||
| Left–right ideology: scale 0 (left)–1 (right) | +24*** | |||||
| Constant | 31*** | 57*** | 58*** | 07* | 58*** | 25*** |
| Adj R 2 | .11 | .04 | .23 | .26 | .07 | .15 |
| N | 7.787 | 1.429 | 1.224 | 1.192 | 1.167 | 1.126 |
Source: National Society, Opinion, Media (SOM) survey, 2016.
Note. OLS = ordinary least squares. The six dependent variables are survey questions (and one index) presented in Table 1. All dependent variables are coded 0 (lowest value) to 100 (highest value) and all independent variables are coded 0–1. The number of respondents is much higher in M1 since these questions were included in all versions of the SOM questionnaires, including those where alcohol-related questions were not included. Adj R 2-values are written in italics.
*p < .05. ** p < .01. *** p < .001.