Research Article

Factors Influencing Public Concern about Environmental Protection: An Analysis from China

Table 1

Regression results.

Total sample3.1: Cities with higher levels of informatisation3.2: 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 (0.0500.455(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 level0.689 (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)

cons9.627(0.628)20147(0.856)8.699(0.979)

Number of samples1630831797

Number of cities280142136

chi2()13065.1521912.1610459.95

Autocorrelation test89.89151.07746.184

Multicollinearity test (mean vif)2.732.491.77