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Table 1 Sample Descriptive Statistics

From: Perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 infection from event attendance: results from Louisiana, USA, two weeks preceding the national emergency declaration

VARIABLES

Mean or %

Dependent Variables:

National Likelihood (Likert scale, 1–5)

3.89

National Likelihood (converted to binary)

0.74

Local Vulnerability (Likert scale, 1–5)

3.22

Local Vulnerability (converted to binary)

0.51

National, not Local (converted to binary)

0.29

Female

58.4%

Age × Student Status:

 18–24 × Non-student

24.3%

 18–24 × Student

57.8%

 25+ × Non-student

7.4%

 25+ × Student

10.5%

Household income per year:

 Less than $15,000

17.3%

 $15,000–$49,999

26.9%

 $50,000 - $99,999

14.7%

 $100,000 and above

14.5%

 Prefer not to answer

26.6%

Race/Ethnicity

 Non – Hispanic White

52.7%

 Non – Hispanic Black

21.5%

 Other

25.8%

 Hispanic or Latino

8.8%

 Asian

12.5%

 All other responses

4.5%

 # of Observations

353

  1. Notes: See supporting information for question wording and response options and for experimental element descriptions (Figure S1 and S2); and for descriptive statistics for the remaining explanatory variables (Table S1)