Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of the variables.

Variables	Mean/Percentage	Standard deviation	Min	Max
Dependent variables
Infection rate	0.583	3.595	0.000	61.903
Infection rate (log)	−2.496	2.089	−9.903	4.126
Independent variables
Trust in central government	4.444	0.212	3.960	4.930
Trust in local government	3.492	0.239	3.070	4.450
Trust in central media	4.141	0.243	3.650	4.860
Trust in local media	3.404	0.250	2.870	4.410
Generalized trust	3.404	0.250	2.780	4.410
Risk perception	3.448	0.168	2.73	3.68
Control variables
Proportion of elderly people	0.117	0.022	0.072	0.152
Average education years	7.419	0.462	6.418	10.479
Unemployment rate	3.148	0.495	1.400	4.000
Average number of household persons	3.129	0.260	2.452	3.645
Proportion of social insurance expenditure	0.145	0.038	0.096	0.274
Population flow from Wuhan	0.020	0.076	0.000	0.824
Population density (ten thousand/km2)	0.042	0.036	0.000	0.279
GDP per capita	59199.850	54603.620	10926.630	506301.300
City type
Prefecture-level cities	81.700
Central direct or province-capital cities	9.150
County-level cities	9.150
Hubei Province
Other provinces	94.950
Hubei Province	5.050

City number: 317, Province number: 29.