Table 3.
Parameter estimates of variables in the multinominal logistic regression (MLR) model used to predict local people's attitudes toward wildlife species conservation in Save Valley Conservancy. Parameters for “negative attitude” (n = 114) and “positive attitude” (n = 78) are presented while parameters for the “neutral attitude” (n = 98) were taken to be the reference category for each of the scenarios.
| Explanatory variables | Category | Positive attitude | Negative attitude | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | SE | OR | B | SE | OR | ||
| Sex | Female vs male | −0.09 | 0.43 | 0.91∗ | −1.39 | 0.79 | 0.25∗∗ |
| Age group | <30 years vs >40 years | 1.59 | 1.10 | 4.90 | 1.48 | 1.07 | 4.40 |
| 31–40 years vs >40 years | 0.90 | 1.21 | 2.46 | 0.47 | 1.23 | 1.60 | |
| Education | Primary vs none | −0.65 | 0.57 | 0.52 | 1.75 | 1.31 | 5.75∗∗∗ |
| Secondary vs none | −0.46 | 0.55 | 0.63 | 0.94 | 0.90 | 2.56∗∗∗ | |
| College vs none | −2.86 | 1.13 | 0.06∗∗ | −1.39 | 0.12 | 4.01∗∗∗ | |
| Period of stay in SVC | <5 years vs >5 years | 0.02 | 1.21 | 1.02 | 3.60 | 1.43 | 36.71∗∗ |
∗ , ∗∗, and ∗∗∗ indicate the significance of parameters at 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively; B = regression coefficient and OR = odds ratio; SE = standard error. For age group, “>40 years” and for education, “none” were taken to be the reference categories for comparison.