Table 1
Descriptive analysis of the examined variables.
| VARIABLES | N | MIN. | MAX. | MEAN | SD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communications on social media | 414 | 0 | 1 | 0.35 | 0.48 |
| Social-media-use municipal council members | 379 | 1 | 5 | 2.30 | 1.088 |
| Population size | 414 | 109 | 423193 | 7326.78 | 23468.17 |
| Proportion of foreign population | 414 | .92 | 55.37 | 19.71 | 10.39 |
| Age group % 65 + years | 414 | 9.88 | 39.30 | 20.13 | 4.31 |
| Net debt per capita | 414 | –68759.59 | 18054.89 | –847.28 | 6209.096 |
Table 2
Results of binary logistic regression.
| VARIABLES | B | SE | WALD | p | ODDS RATIO | 95% CI FOR ODDS RATIO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOWER BOUND | UPPER BOUND | ||||||
| Social-media-use municipal council members | 0.436 | 0.122 | 12.730 | <.001 | 1.546 | 1.217 | 1.965 |
| Net debt per capita (in 1000) | –0.033 | 0.020 | 2.662 | 0.103 | 0.967 | 0.930 | 1.007 |
| Population size (in 1000) | 0.103 | 0.024 | 17.946 | <.001 | 1.108 | 1.057 | 1.162 |
| Proportion of foreign population | 0.024 | 0.014 | 2.794 | 0.095 | 1.024 | 0.996 | 1.052 |
| Age group % 65 + years | –0.038 | 0.031 | 1.460 | 0.227 | 0.963 | 0.906 | 1.024 |
[i] Note: Nagelkerke R2 = .306; Hosmer-Lemeshow Test: p = .300; Overall accuracy = 75.7%. Degrees of freedom were 1 for all Wald statistics. All VIF < 2 indicating no multicollinearity.
Significance: ***p < .001, **p < .01, *p < .05.