Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics and descriptive statistics.
From: Narratives and opinion polarization: a survey experiment
Variable | Description | Mean | SD |
|---|---|---|---|
Rep | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the state is a lean Republican state and 0 otherwise. | 0.35 | 0.48 |
Urban | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the subject lives in a metropolitan county with more than 250,000 population. Data comes from USAFacts (2020), available at http://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map (accessed on May 15, 2020). | 0.85 | 0.36 |
Male | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the subject is a male and 0 otherwise. | 0.49 | 0.50 |
Age | Respondent’s age. | 34.61 | 12.88 |
Income | Self-reported income level on a ten-point scale where 10 is the highest income class. | 6.07 | 1.81 |
High school | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the highest level of education the respondent achieved is lower than or equal to high school. | 0.35 | 0.48 |
Bachelor | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the highest level of education the respondent achieved is a bachelor’s. | 0.46 | 0.50 |
Master | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the highest level of education the respondent achieved is a master’s. | 0.14 | 0.35 |
Doctorate | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the highest level of education the respondent achieved is a doctorate. | 0.05 | 0.21 |
Self-employed | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the subject reported to be self-employed or other. | 0.16 | 0.36 |
Student | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the subject reported to be a student. | 0.16 | 0.37 |
Unemployed | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the subject reported to be unemployed. | 0.16 | 0.37 |
Employed | Dummy variable taking value 1 if the subject reported to be (part-time or full-time) employed. | 0.52 | 0.50 |
No restriction | Dummy variable taking value 1 if no lockdown restrictions were in place at the time of the survey. | 0.02 | 0.15 |
Advisory order | Dummy variable taking value 1 if only an advisory order was in effect at the time of the survey. | 0.28 | 0.45 |
Person at risk | Dummy variable taking value 1 if, at the time of the survey, lockdown restrictions were in place only for persons at risk. | 0.11 | 0.31 |
Lockdown | Dummy variable taking value 1 if lockdown restrictions were in place for all residents at the time of the survey. | 0.59 | 0.49 |
COVID-19 | Ratio between the cumulated number of COVID-19 cases officially confirmed in each state till the day before the survey experiment and the corresponding population. | 0.10 | 0.12 |
