Human-Wildlife Conflict in Save Valley Conservancy: Residents’ Attitude Toward Wildlife Conservation

Table 3

Parameter estimates of variables in the multinominal logistic regression (MLR) model used to predict local people’s attitudes toward wildlife species conservation in Save Valley Conservancy. Parameters for “negative attitude” (n = 114) and “positive attitude” (n = 78) are presented while parameters for the “neutral attitude” (n = 98) were taken to be the reference category for each of the scenarios.

Explanatory variables	Category	Positive attitude			Negative attitude
		B	SE	OR	B	SE	OR
Sex	Female vs male	−0.09	0.43	0.91	−1.39	0.79	0.25
Age group	<30 years vs >40 years	1.59	1.10	4.90	1.48	1.07	4.40
	31–40 years vs >40 years	0.90	1.21	2.46	0.47	1.23	1.60
Education	Primary vs none	−0.65	0.57	0.52	1.75	1.31	5.75
	Secondary vs none	−0.46	0.55	0.63	0.94	0.90	2.56
	College vs none	−2.86	1.13	0.06	−1.39	0.12	4.01
Period of stay in SVC	<5 years vs >5 years	0.02	1.21	1.02	3.60	1.43	36.71

, , and indicate the significance of parameters at 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively; B = regression coefficient and OR = odds ratio; SE = standard error. For age group, “>40 years” and for education, “none” were taken to be the reference categories for comparison.