C. LOGISTIC REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS
C.1 LOGISTIC REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS PREDICTING PROPENSITY TO VOLUNTEER, 2006 GSS
 | | | | | | 95% confidence interval
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| Characteristics | Coefficient | Standard error | Wald Chi-square | P > ChiSq | Lower | Upper |
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| Constant | -1.056 | 0.06 | 317.18 | 0.00 | -1.17 | -0.94 |
| Sex | | | | | | |
| Male (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
| Female | 0.244 | 0.04 | 35.56 | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.32 |
| Age group | | | | | | |
| 18–29 years | -0.379 | 0.06 | 42.53 | 0.00 | -0.49 | -0.26 |
| 30–39 years | -0.227 | 0.05 | 18.47 | 0.00 | -0.33 | -0.12 |
| 40–59 years (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
| 60 years and over | 0.085 | 0.06 | 1.92 | 0.17 | -0.04 | 0.21 |
| Family composition | | | | | | |
| Family with children aged under 15 years | 0.711 | 0.05 | 218.47 | 0.00 | 0.62 | 0.81 |
| Family with dependent children aged 15–24 years | 0.332 | 0.08 | 15.65 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.50 |
| Family with no dependent children (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
| Social marital status | | | | | | |
| Married (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
| Not Married | -0.144 | 0.04 | 12.44 | 0.00 | -0.22 | -0.06 |
| Proficiency in spoken English at home | | | | | | |
| Speaks English only (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
| Speaks English well or very well | -0.432 | 0.07 | 41.71 | 0.00 | -0.56 | -0.30 |
| Speaks English not well or not at all | -1.293 | 0.18 | 50.57 | 0.00 | -1.65 | -0.94 |
| Highest level of educational attainment | | | | | | |
| Advanced Diploma/Diploma or above | 0.883 | 0.05 | 319.19 | 0.00 | 0.79 | 0.98 |
| Year 12 or Certificate III/IV | 0.419 | 0.05 | 74.41 | 0.00 | 0.32 | 0.51 |
| Year 11 or below (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
| Labour force status | | | | | | |
| Employed full-time (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
| Employed part-time | 0.257 | 0.05 | 22.45 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.36 |
| Unemployed | -0.022 | 0.12 | 0.03 | 0.86 | -0.27 | 0.22 |
| Not in the Labour force | -0.061 | 0.06 | 1.18 | 0.28 | -0.17 | 0.05 |
| Part of State | | | | | | |
| Capital city | -0.232 | 0.04 | 32.03 | 0.00 | -0.31 | -0.15 |
| Rest of State (base) | 0.000 | | | | | |
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| (a) Married includes registered marriages and de-facto relationships where the couples live together. Not married includes all other living arrangements. |
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| Model diagnostics | |
| Number of observations | 13,227 |
| Likelihood ratio | Chi-Square = 963.86 |
| | P > ChiSq < 0.0001 |
| R-Square | 0.097 |
| Hosmer and Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit test | Chi-Square = 10.71 |
| | P > ChiSq = 0.22 |
This page last updated 7 June 2012
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