Table 5.
Results of multilevel analyses regarding generalized trust, cumulative infection rate on February 21 and risk perception.
| Model 5 |
Model 6 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Cumulative infection rate (logged) on February 21 | Cumulative infection rate (logged) on February 21 | |
| Province level | ||
| Generalized trust | 2.342† (1.344) |
0.380 (1.312) |
| Risk perception | −1.913** (0.618) |
|
| Proportion of elderly people | 2.361 (12.974) |
12.387 (11.864) |
| Average education years | −0.122 (0.396) |
0.076 (0.359) |
| Unemployment rate | 0.455 (0.428) |
0.720* (0.366) |
| Average number of household persons | −0.387 (0.945) |
0.091 (0.802) |
| Proportion of social insurance expenditure | −3.291 (6.109) |
−9.610† (5.772) |
| City level | ||
| Population flow from Wuhan | 1.970 (1.706) |
1.854 (1.703) |
| Population density | 9.418** (3.161) |
9.869** (3.120) |
| GDP per capita | 0.000* (0.000) |
0.000* (0.000) |
| City type (Ref: prefecture-level cities) | ||
| Central direct or province-capital cities | 0.896** (0.332) |
0.911** (0.330) |
| County-level cities | 1.270*** (0.354) |
1.201*** (0.350) |
| Hubei Province (Ref: other provinces) | 3.983*** (1.051) |
3.803*** (0.864) |
| Constant | −10.855† (6.265) |
−2.593 (6.268) |
| Cities | 317 | 317 |
| Provinces | 29 | 29 |
| AIC | 1239.096 | 1232.618 |
| BIC | 1287.962 | 1285.243 |
Standard errors are in parenthesis.
***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, †p < 0.1.