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. 2022 Sep 27;58(3):651–694. doi: 10.1057/s41269-022-00258-3

Table 2.

Inaccuracy and directional bias of personal estimates

Unemployment Inflation Growth
Inaccuracy Direction Inaccuracy Direction Inaccuracy Direction
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Education
 Ref =  < age 15
 Age 16–17 − 0.38 (− 2.73) − 0.25 (− 1.50) − 0.29 (− 2.29) − 0.27 (− 2.01) − 0.19 (− 2.71) − 0.15 (− 1.43)
 Age 18–20 − 0.90 (− 5.75) − 0.84 (− 4.98) − 0.73 (− 6.55) − 0.70 (− 6.30) − 0.35 (− 4.68) − 0.43 (− 4.30)
 Age 21–24 − 1.23 (− 6.42) − 1.04 (− 5.38) − 1.18 (− 9.29) − 1.16 (− 8.93) − 0.59 (− 7.45) − 0.65 (− 6.14)
 Age 25 +  − 1.30 (− 6.13) − 1.22 (− 5.57) − 1.22 (− 9.22) − 1.20 (− 9.32) − 0.73 (− 9.49) − 0.78 (− 7.24)
Financial situation
 Ref = very bad
 Rather bad − 0.84 (− 3.95) − 0.71 (− 3.39) − 1.01 (− 5.51) − 0.91 (− 4.50) − 0.24 (− 2.28) 0.27 (1.50)
 Rather good − 1.22 (− 5.51) − 1.18 (− 5.27) − 1.39 (− 6.93) − 1.31 (− 5.62) − 0.34 (− 3.88) 0.34 (2.15)
 Very good − 1.69 (− 6.79) − 1.83 (− 6.90) − 1.49 (− 7.42) − 1.42 (− 6.46) − 0.34 (− 3.40) 0.36 (2.24)
Economic outlook
 Ref = stay same
 Worsen 0.42 (3.05) 0.42 (2.78) 0.27 (2.64) 0.25 (2.32) 0.06 (0.76) − 0.03 (− 0.30)
 Improve − 0.19 (− 1.78) − 0.27 (− 2.30) − 0.01 (− 0.22) 0.02 (0.31) 0.07 (1.14) 0.07 (0.84)
Nr economic issues mentioned among most important two
 Ref = 0
 1 0.31 (3.42) 0.44 (3.92) 0.06 (0.81) 0.09 (1.07) 0.07 (1.35) − 0.08 (− 1.45)
 2 0.46 (4.86) 0.68 (5.82) 0.14 (1.10) 0.22 (1.60) − 0.01 (− 0.15) − 0.15 (− 1.68)
Trust statistics − 0.64 (− 5.75) − 0.71 (− 6.61) − 0.34 (− 3.99) − 0.32 (− 3.75) − 0.04 (− 0.57) 0.20 (2.91)
Discuss politics
 Ref = never
 Occasionally − 0.67 (− 5.73) − 0.53 (− 3.42) − 0.58 (− 6.27) − 0.53 (− 5.81) − 0.32 (− 5.00) − 0.26 (− 3.01)
 Frequently − 1.13 (− 7.84) − 0.89 (− 4.63) − 0.82 (− 6.35) − 0.81 (− 6.13) − 0.43 (− 4.06) − 0.51 (− 3.80)
Political ideology
 Ref = Center
 Far left 0.02 (0.12) − 0.18 (− 1.31) 0.01 (0.07) 0.01 (0.08) 0.03 (0.31) − 0.03 (− 0.23)
 Center-left − 0.33 (− 3.87) − 0.27 (− 2.71) − 0.27 (− 3.28) − 0.28 (− 3.09) − 0.09 (− 1.26) − 0.13 (− 1.36)
 Center-right − 0.28 (− 4.19) − 0.20 (− 2.60) − 0.13 (− 1.81) − 0.13 (− 1.46) − 0.12 (− 1.87) 0.04 (0.41)
 Far right 0.49 (3.39) 0.15 (1.02) 0.36 (2.46) 0.28 (1.57) 0.23 (2.28) 0.12 (1.01)
Ideological distance from incumbent government 0.10 (3.40) 0.11 (3.19) 0.05 (2.07) 0.04 (1.49) 0.04 (2.11) 0.04 (1.35)
Occupation
 Ref = Manager
 Self-employed 0.19 (1.60) 0.21 (1.64) 0.13 (0.91) 0.12 (0.79) 0.07 (0.74) 0.04 (0.44)
 Other white collar 0.004 (0.02) − 0.06 (− 0.36) 0.13 (1.23) 0.13 (1.12) 0.10 (1.76) 0.04 (0.48)
 Manual worker 0.52 (3.01) 0.40 (1.97) 0.60 (6.79) 0.59 (7.27) 0.27 (2.55) 0.33 (2.79)
 House person 0.30 (2.21) 0.07 (0.44) 0.70 (4.35) 0.70 (4.13) 0.17 (1.26) 0.23 (1.57)
 Unemployed 0.58 (3.75) 0.60 (3.01) 0.50 (3.04) 0.42 (2.35) 0.33 (3.21) 0.35 (2.33)
 Retired 0.48 (3.04) 0.54 (3.59) 0.48 (4.93) 0.50 (4.91) 0.14 (1.34) 0.25 (1.84)
 Student − 0.14 (− 0.71) − 0.03 (− 0.13) 0.30 (1.95) 0.31 (2.02) 0.26 (2.22) 0.26 (1.83)
EB2015 dummy 3.35 (11.93) 4.17 (16.79) 1.04 (2.19) 0.63 (1.20) 1.27 (3.84) 0.02 (0.04)
Female 1.02 (7.07) 0.97 (5.90) 0.73 (7.16) 0.75 (7.09) 0.47 (6.60) 0.55 (6.50)
Age − 0.07 (− 4.54) − 0.03 (− 1.35) − 0.07 (− 4.02) − 0.06 (− 3.59) − 0.03 (− 4.36) − 0.03 (− 2.97)
Age-square 0.0003 (2.10) − 0.0001 (− 0.81) 0.0004 (2.30) 0.0003 (1.93) 0.0002 (2.77) 0.0002 (1.32)
National unemp rate − 0.22 (− 6.20) − 0.46 (− 11.32)
National infl rate − 0.64 (− 6.60) − 0.83 (− 7.61)
National growth rate 0.07 (1.67) − 0.62 (− 6.24)
GDP per capita (log) − 0.92 (− 4.04) − 1.36 (− 4.50) − 2.14 (− 5.54) − 1.91 (− 5.30) − 0.18 (− 1.28) − 0.82 (− 3.83)
Number of countries 29 29 29 29 29 29
Number of regions 490 490 490 490 487 487
Observations 28,334 28,334 25,035 25,035 19,530 19,530
LPSLH − 84,765.7 − 89,042.1 − 71,077.6 − 72,831.3 − 46,457.3 − 51,980.0

z-statistic in parentheses. Robust standard errors clustered by country. Constant not shown