Better than my neighbor? Testing for overconfidence in COVID-19 preventive behaviors in Latin America

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Descriptive statistics (respondents who left their house the week before)

Variable	Options	Total	Behavior		p-value
Variable	Options	Total	Self	Others	p-value
Basic Socio Economic Characteristics
Age	Mean	41.351	41.463	41.24	0.616
Age	SD	15.405	15.255	15.555
Sex (%)	Female	0.464	0.473	0.455	0.223
Educational level (% composition)	Less than high school	0.436	0.427	0.445	0.479
	High school	0.367	0.376	0.358	0.063
	More than high school	0.194	0.195	0.194	0.222
Household characteristics	Household size: mean	4.061	4.079	4.043	0.721
	Household size: SD	2.054	2.093	2.014
	Households with members >60 y.o. (%)	0.375	0.368	0.382	0.907
	Households with members <12 y.o. (%)	0.466	0.445	0.487	0.129
Smartphone use	Used smartphone last week (%)	0.79	0.789	0.792	0.664
Trust
Of the following phrases, with which one do you identify more?	You can trust the majority of people	0.176	0.169	0.183	0.139
	You can never be careful enough in your interactions with others	0.795	0.803	0.786	0.134
How much do you trust the government?	A lot	0.156	0.161	0.152	0.793
	Some	0.441	0.444	0.438	0.513
	Nothing	0.385	0.378	0.391	0.374
N		7511	3778	3733

the p-values show that for each covariate, we test the differences in means across groups and see they are not significant at the 5% level - there seems not to be any significant difference in baseline characteristics

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