From: Exploring the relationship between life quality and the perceptions of living-environment crises
Main variables | Model 9: employment crisis | Model 10: public safety crisis | Model 11: infectious disease crisis | Model 12: pollution crisis | ||||
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Coefficient | Robust S.E. | Coefficient | Robust S.E. | Coefficient | Robust S.E. | Coefficient | Robust S.E. | |
Neighbourhood population density | 0.002 | (0.002) | 0.005*** | (0.002) | 0.003 | (0.003) | 0.005* | (0.003) |
Average annual income of registered community residents | 0.016 | (0.013) | 0.014 | (0.016) | 0.026* | (0.014) | 0.036** | (0.015) |
The presence/absence of sources of pollution (ref: yes) | −0.117 | (0.142) | − 0.067 | (0.210) | − 0.215 | (0.182) | − 0.274 | (0.193) |
The presence/absence of parks (ref: no) | 0.126 | (0.134) | −0.170 | (0.194) | −0.235 | (0.167) | 0.076 | (0.151) |
The presence/absence of healthcare facilities (ref: no) | −0.364* | (0.191) | −0.390* | (0.215) | 0.011 | (0.209) | −0.277 | (0.169) |
The presence/absence of banking facilities (ref: no) | −0.238* | (0.141) | −0.109 | (0.182) | 0.114 | (0.167) | 0.089 | (0.161) |
Individual-level variables | ||||||||
Subjective well-being | −0.125*** | (0.023) | −0.065** | (0.030) | −0.063** | (0.026) | −0.087*** | (0.021) |
Quality of life compared to neighbours | −0.302*** | (0.082) | −0.140 | (0.102) | −0.048 | (0.104) | 0.007 | (0.097) |
Subjective social status | −0.134*** | (0.035) | −0.084* | (0.044) | −0.148*** | (0.041) | −0.155*** | (0.032) |
Personal sense of neighbourhood security | −0.149* | (0.079) | −0.225** | (0.103) | −0.131* | (0.078) | −0.376*** | (0.080) |
Social trust of neighbours | −0.017 | (0.057) | 0.000 | (0.081) | −0.033 | (0.068) | 0.008 | (0.056) |
(log) Annual personal income | −0.033 | (0.021) | −0.002 | (0.027) | 0.022 | (0.023) | 0.017 | (0.024) |
Level of education | −0.034* | (0.018) | 0.011 | (0.021) | 0.060*** | (0.021) | 0.092*** | (0.020) |
Female (ref: male) | −0.080 | (0.086) | −0.116 | (0.114) | −0.075 | (0.085) | −0.064 | (0.078) |
Age | −0.003 | (0.006) | −0.009 | (0.006) | −0.012** | (0.005) | −0.002 | (0.005) |
Married status (ref: single) | ||||||||
Married | −0.062 | (0.143) | −0.026 | (0.175) | 0.130 | (0.157) | 0.156 | (0.160) |
Divorced or widowed | −0.373 | (0.274) | 0.030 | (0.268) | 0.062 | (0.264) | 0.188 | (0.242) |
Job type (ref: government department) | ||||||||
Business employee | 0.604*** | (0.152) | 0.330** | (0.141) | 0.167 | (0.155) | 0.013 | (0.119) |
Self-employed and other | 0.407** | (0.180) | 0.224 | (0.150) | 0.008 | (0.148) | −0.005 | (0.128) |
cut1 | −3.664*** | (0.481) | −1.459*** | (0.563) | −0.981* | (0.526) | −2.246*** | (0.524) |
cut2 | −2.411*** | (0.483) | 0.953 | (0.605) | 0.821 | (0.525) | −1.059** | (0.517) |
cut3 | −1.102** | (0.484) | 2.596*** | (0.643) | 2.594*** | (0.568) | 0.615 | (0.517) |
County-level variance | 0.077 | (0.132) | 0.110 | (0.178) | 0.000 | (0.000) | 0.330** | (0.131) |
Neighbourhood-level variance | 0.263* | (0.144) | 0.478** | (0.238) | 0.515*** | (0.106) | 0.249** | (0.119) |
Number of counties | 93 | 93 | 93 | 93 | ||||
Number of neighbourhoods | 122 | 122 | 122 | 122 | ||||
Number of individuals | 2576 | 2576 | 2576 | 2576 | ||||
Log likelihood | − 2580.546 | − 1651.941 | − 2106.719 | − 2864.317 | ||||
Chi-squared | 273.034 | 108.072 | 68.233 | 172.655 |