Table 6.
Multiple regression analysis identifying social characteristics explaining the variation in people’s values of ‘Indirect Spiritual’ ecosystem services. The most parsimonious candidate models with model averaged parameter estimates where Δ AICc < 2, are shown. Participant’s gender, employment status, ethnicity, country of residence and age were entered into the model (n = 198). Excluding age, all variables were categorical. Categorical variables were incorporated into the regression using dummy coding. A reference variable was chosen, and the significance of alternative social characteristics was calculated through comparison to the reference variable. Significant difference of social characteristics from reference characteristic is indicated for p = 0.01 (*); 0.001 (**); >0,001 (***). Parameter estimates are provided with standard errors.
| Variable | Model |
Model average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||
| Intercept | 3.39 ± 0.19 | 3.42 ± 0.19 | 3.41 ± 0.19 |
| Gender (ref: Female) | |||
| Male | – | −0.11 ± 0.12 | −0.11 ± 0.12 |
| Ethnicity (ref: White): | |||
| Any other ethnicity** | 0.45 ± 0.17 | 0.48 ± 0.17 | 0.47 ± 0.17 |
| Age | −0.009 ± 0.003 | −0.008 ± 0.003 | −0.008 ± 0.003 |
| AICc | 418.24 | 419.60 | |
| Akaike weight | 0.44 | 0.22 | |
| r2 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.08 |