Table 3.
Results of multilevel analyses regarding trust in government, cumulative infection rate on February 21, and risk perception.
| Model 1 |
Model 2 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Cumulative infection rate (logged) on February 21 | Cumulative infection rate (logged) on February 21 | |
| Province level | ||
| Trust in central government | −1.206 (0.931) |
−0.795 (0.874) |
| Trust in local government | −1.817* (0.771) |
−1.194 (0.739) |
| Risk perception | −1.480** (0.576) |
|
| Proportion of elderly people | 8.502 (9.385) |
9.657 (8.845) |
| Average education years | −0.331 (0.380) |
−0.135 (0.368) |
| Unemployment rate | 0.041 (0.416) |
0.411 (0.379) |
| Average number of household persons | 0.125 (0.813) |
0.167 (0.728) |
| Proportion of social insurance expenditure | −0.593 (5.792) |
−5.627 (5.494) |
| City level | ||
| Population flow from Wuhan | 1.997 (1.707) |
1.930 (1.701) |
| Population density | 9.041** (3.155) |
9.703** (3.127) |
| GDP per capita | 0.000* (0.000) |
0.000* (0.000) |
| City type (Ref: prefecture-level cities) | ||
| Central direct or province-capital cities | 0.922** (0.332) |
0.925** (0.330) |
| County-level cities | 1.336*** (0.356) |
1.296*** (0.353) |
| Hubei Province (Ref: other provinces) | 3.455*** (0.982) |
3.490*** (0.864) |
| Constant | 9.103 (7.080) |
7.212 (6.561) |
| Cities | 317 | 317 |
| Provinces | 29 | 29 |
| AIC | 1235.428 | 1230.639 |
| BIC | 1288.053 | 1287.023 |
Standard errors are in parenthesis.
***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, †p < 0.1.