Table 7.

Regressions predicting confidence in public health scientists (confidence_phs)

Variable	USA		Japan		HK
	B	P	B	P	B	p
partic_civic	0.19	0.002**	0.19	0.007**	0.20	0.006**
voted	0.84	0.000***	0.34	0.016*	0.28	0.046*
voteP	0.01	0.950	-0.79	0.001**	-0.21	0.410
govt_empl	0.36	0.013*	0.03	0.869	0.01	0.964
Income	0.04	0.155	0.02	0.446	0.01	0.737
Educ	0.08	0.139	0.13	0.056	0.02	0.734
Age	0.06	0.115	0.08	0.097	0.00	0.943
Town	-0.24	0.073	0.05	0.773	-0.17	0.343
Rural	-0.51	0.002**	0.03	0.826	0.34	0.186
Female	-0.29	0.018*	0.09	0.512	-0.03	0.815
gender prefer not to say	-1.27	0.000***	-1.36	0.045*	-3.31	0.006**
Conservative	-0.29	0.000***	-0.03	0.663	0.11	0.101

^*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001