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Table 2 Description of the civic engagement questions

From: Cultural transmission of civic attitudes

 

Mean

Std

Min

Max

Distribution

Minc

Maxd

Valuee

Median

%

%

%Acce

 Civic engagement intensitya

0.23

0.15

0

1

1.66

0.1

0.2

50.6

 Civic engagement intensity pcb

0.19

0.13

0

1

1.66

0.1

0.17

50.0

Original variables

Discuss politicsf

 At home

2.16

0.90

1

4

27.7

6.6

2

62.9

 With friends

2.21

0.93

1

4

26.7

8.1

2

60.4

 At work

1.89

0.93

1

4

44.5

4.8

2

71.0

Active civic participation

 Active membershipg

1.16

2.20

0

18

59.5

0.2

0

59.5

 Demonstrationsh

0.87

1.12

0

4

52.3

3.7

0

52.3

Political informedi

 Newspaper readership

2.72

1.44

1

5

27.4

17.6

2

50.0

TV political programs

2.34

1.35

1

5

34.8

12.2

2

63.4

 Internet political issues

1.34

0.88

1

5

82.5

2.7

1

82.5

 Voted

0.76

0.43

0

1

  

1

76.0

  1. aObtained by adding up all the answers given to the civic engagement questions
  2. bFirst vector of the principal components of all civic engagement questions
  3. cPercentage of answers in the minimum
  4. dPercentage of answers in the maximum
  5. eValue of the median; 6 % of answers accumulated at the median
  6. fResponse: 1 never to 4 frequently
  7. gThe number of different associations in which the respondent is actively participates
  8. hThe number of demonstrations the respondent participated in the last 12 months
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