Table 3.

The influence of ideological and ethnoracial identities on perceptions of the news—ordinary least squares regression estimates (and standard errors)

	Ideological statements scale (Model 1)		Ethnoracial statements scale (Model 2)
	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value
Democrat	0.0859	0.000	0.127	0.000
(ref. Republican)	(0.00657)		(0.0108)
Independent	0.039	0.000	0.0773	0.000
(ref. Republican)	(0.00596)		(0.00981)
Other Party	0.0618	0.000	0.0893	0.000
(ref. Republican)	−0.00826)		(0.0136)
Moderate	−0.0258	0.000	−0.0653	0.000
(ref. Liberal)	(0.00553)		(0.00909)
Conservative	−0.0692	0.000	−0.114	0.000
(ref. Liberal)	(0.00672)		(0.0111)
Black	0.0687	0.000	0.0631	0.000
(ref. White)	(0.00697)		(0.0115)
Hispanic	0.041	0.000	0.063	0.000
(ref. White)	(0.00612)		(0.0101)
Other Race	0.00495	0.524	−0.00231	0.856
(ref. White)	(0.00776)		(0.0128)
Sex	0.013	0.002	−0.00234	0.732
(1=female)	(0.00414)		(0.00682)
Age	−0.000525	0.000	−0.00193	0.000
	(0.000124)		(0.000204)
Some college	0.00569	0.276	0.0364	0.000
(ref. High school)	(0.00523)		(0.0086)
Bachelor	0.00484	0.392	0.0864	0.000
(ref. High school)	(0.00566)		(0.00931)
Income	−0.000164	0.741	0.00366	0.000
	(0.000497)		(0.000818)
Trust in media	0.0269	0.000	0.0544	0.000
	(0.00261)		(0.0043)
Constant	0.402	0.000	0.391	0.000
	(0.0128)		(0.0211)
Observations	4,843		4,840
R-squared	0.222		0.235

Note.—Tests of significance are two-tailed. All data are weighted. Data Source: Pew Research Center (2018).