Awareness Level of Business Students regarding Drinking Water Safety and Associated Adulteration Accidents: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Approach

Table 4

Influencing factors of public awareness about water safety (multinomial logistic regression results).

Variables	Panel 1: Satisfaction level with drinking water quality			Panel 2: Public attention to local drinking water quality			Panel 3: Trust level in the safety of drinking water
	Very satisfied	Dissatisfied	No answer	High attention	Not concerned	No answer	Confident	Relatively confident	Extremely worried	No answer
Age	0.0434	−0.149	0.0737	0.0790	0.138	0.0336	0.0105	0.0249	0.0350	−0.334
	(0.138)	(0.176)	(0.271)	(0.140)	(0.140)	(0.241)	(0.140)	(0.141)	(0.221)	(0.385)
Gender	0.480	0.690	−0.395	0.799	0.869	−0.499	−0.499	−0.468	−0.133	14.89
	(0.253)	(0.331)	(0.524)	(0.260)	(0.261)	(0.503)	(0.259)	(0.261)	(0.405)	(653.0)
Education	0.192	0.116	1.489	−0.717	0.603	0.391	−0.140	0.0583	−0.0456	−0.727
	(0.208)	(0.262)	(0.540)	(0.248)	(0.315)	(0.549)	(0.208)	(0.225)	(0.329)	(0.314)
Tehsil	0.192	−0.0153	0.0233	0.0187	0.0867	0.0757	−0.293	−0.00803	−0.103	−0.200
	(0.0891)	(0.113)	(0.183)	(0.0892)	(0.0911)	(0.158)	(0.0911)	(0.0923)	(0.142)	(0.239)
Constant	−2.785	−2.112	−8.936	1.999	−3.754	−3.559	1.507	−0.272	−1.011	−12.82
	(1.034)	(1.280)	(2.626)	(1.152)	(1.443)	(2.514)	(1.031)	(1.104)	(1.633)	(653.0)
Observations	399	399	399	396	396	396	399	399	399	399
Pseudo-r-squared	28%			51%			34%
Chi-square	22.619			51.057			37.142
Akaike crit. (AIC)	815.160			972.506			1,088.314
Ref. category	Relatively satisfied			Special attention			Somewhat worried

Standard errors are provided in parentheses. , , and .