Research Article
Factors Influencing Public Concern about Environmental Protection: An Analysis from China
| | Total sample | 3.1: Cities with higher levels of informatisation | 3.2: Cities with low levels of informatisation |
| Government environmental regulation power (keyword/total words) | 0.018 (0.025) | 0.086(0.033) | 0.043(0.038) |
| The proportion of the secondary industry to GDP | -0.023 (0.048) | -0.597(0.071) | -0.42(0.102) |
| Per capita GDP (RMB10,000) | 0.147 (0.031) | -0.153(0.048) | 0.444(0.072) |
| Internet (10,000 people) | 0.620 (0.017) | | |
| Average wage of employees (Yuan) | -0.408 (0.050 | 0.455(0.067) | -0.171(0.073) |
| Financial level (per capita loan level of 10,000 yuan/person) | 0.088 (0.021) | 0.171(0.028) | -0.072(0.054) |
| Per capita foreign investment (US$/person) | -0.024 (0.007) | 0.006(0.037) | -0.004(0.013) |
| Education level | 0.689 (0.029) | 0.883(0.037) | 0.704(0.088) |
| Industrial wastewater discharge (10,000 tonnes) | 0.106 (0.012) | 0.401(0.015) | 0.215(0.023) |
| Industrial sulphur dioxide emissions (tonnes) | 0.089 (0.009) | 0.113(0.856) | 0.067(0.019) |
| cons | 9.627(0.628) | 20147(0.856) | 8.699(0.979) |
| Number of samples | 1630 | 831 | 797 |
| Number of cities | 280 | 142 | 136 |
| chi2() | 13065.15 | 21912.16 | 10459.95 |
| Autocorrelation test | 89.891 | 51.077 | 46.184 |
| Multicollinearity test (mean vif) | 2.73 | 2.49 | 1.77 |
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