Table 4.
Results of multilevel analyses regarding trust in media, cumulative infection rate on February 21 and risk perception.
| Model 3 |
Model4 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Cumulative infection rate (logged) on February 21 | Cumulative infection rate (logged) on February 21 | |
| Province level | ||
| Trust in central media | −0.319 (0.834) |
−0.232 (0.776) |
| Trust in local media | −2.150* (0.855) |
−1.492† (0.808) |
| Risk perception | −1.467** (0.553) |
|
| Proportion of elderly people | 4.160 (9.450) |
6.144 (8.934) |
| Average education years | −0.381 (0.367) |
−0.174 (0.358) |
| Unemployment rate | 0.210 (0.380) |
0.488 (0.349) |
| Average number of household persons | −0.439 (0.802) |
−0.221 (0.714) |
| Proportion of social insurance expenditure | −5.768 (5.387) |
−8.609† (5.140) |
| City level | ||
| Population flow from Wuhan | 1.953 (1.713) |
1.891 (1.704) |
| Population density | 9.019** (3.148) |
9.701** (3.116) |
| GDP per capita | 0.000* (0.000) |
0.000* (0.000) |
| City type (Ref: prefecture-level cities) | ||
| Central direct or province-capital cities | 0.909** (0.331) |
0.916** (0.329) |
| County-level cities | 1.296*** (0.355) |
1.270*** (0.351) |
| Hubei Province (Ref: other provinces) | 3.700*** (0.900) |
3.624*** (0.810) |
| Constant | 8.918 (6.675) |
7.628 (6.217) |
| Cities | 317 | 317 |
| Provinces | 29 | 29 |
| AIC | 1235.620 | 1230.046 |
| BIC | 1288.244 | 1286.430 |
Standard errors are in parenthesis.
***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, †p < 0.1.