Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of the variables.
| Variable | Variable description | Measure | Mean | SD | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tweet characteristics (2501 Tweets) | ||||||
| Sentiment | Sentiment type | Dummy (0, 1) | 0.48 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| TW | Number of words in the tweet | # | 169.35 | 81.49 | 6.00 | 296.00 |
| Regional Dummies (4 regions) | ||||||
| NE | Northeast regions | Dummy (0, 1) | 0.20 | 0.40 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| MW | Midwest region | Dummy (0, 1) | 0.17 | 0.37 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| WEST | West region | Dummy (0, 1) | 0.26 | 0.44 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| State-level socioeconomic characteristics and population density (50 States of the US and Washington D.C, the capital city of the US) | ||||||
| L_FHH | Log of Percentage of family household | % | 4.18 | 0.05 | 3.77 | 4.32 |
| AFS | Average family size | # | 3.26 | 0.17 | 2.85 | 3.62 |
| EDU2 | Percentage of persons with high school graduate and some college | % | 47.10 | 4.73 | 30.02 | 59.14 |
| EDU3 | Percentage of persons with an associate degree | % | 8.25 | 1.19 | 3.01 | 11.48 |
| AGE2 | Percentage of person Age under 18 | % | 22.25 | 1.66 | 18.10 | 29.50 |
| WP | Percentage of white persons | % | 75.48 | 8.39 | 25.60 | 94.60 |
| OCH | Percentage of owner-occupied housing | % | 62.66 | 5.77 | 41.80 | 72.90 |
| PWHI | Percentage of persons under age 65 years without health insurance | % | 10.22 | 4.35 | 3.20 | 20.00 |
| LF | Percentage of the population age 16 years+ in the labor force | % | 62.94 | 2.73 | 53.10 | 69.70 |
| L_POPDEN | Log of Population density | Persons/mile2 | 5.24 | 0.99 | 0.18 | 9.20 |
| CASES | Total number of cases per 1 million population | cases/1M people | 5856.56 | 5466.00 | 458.00 | 19479.00 |
| PR | Persons in poverty (Poverty rate) | % | 13.07 | 2.06 | 7.60 | 19.70 |
| MHHI | Median household income (2014-2018) | $ | 61962.71 | 10709.20 | 48.49 | 82604.00 |
| GR | Median gross rent (2014-2018) | $ | 1084.67 | 217.14 | 711.00 | 1566.00 |