In Defense of the Right to Life: Analyzing Factors Affecting Filipino Opinion About Death Penalty
Table 4. Logistic Regression Results: Odds Ratios of Support for the Death Penalty (The death penalty should be re-instated
for peoples who were proven by the courts to have really committed heinous crimes)
Independent variables
Urban
Sex
Age
Area (reference: Mindanao)
Metro Manila
Balance Luzon
Visayas
Educ (reference: Some college/grad)
Elem grad
HS grad
Religion (ref Catholics)
Religiosity
TV for news
Internet users
Heinous crime in locality
HH crime victimization
Will feel safe with DP
Worry of heinous crime victimization
Retribution as revenge (A life that is taken is also
paid for by a life)
Retribution as expiation (Most people in jail are
guilty of the crimes)
Follow law over religious principles
Wrongful (Possibility of wrongful DP sentencing)
Justice (Justice repairs harms done + provides
comfort to victims + speedy disposition of justice)
Alternatives (Alternatives to DP)
Constant
-2 Log likelihood
Cox & Snell R Square
Nagelkerke R Square
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
Model 1
B
0.370***
0.301**
-0.004
OR
1.448
1.351
0.996
Model 2
B
0.347***
0.306**
-0.002
OR
1.415
1.358
0.998
Model 3
B
0.325**
0.273**
-0.001
OR
1.384
1.314
0.999
Model 4
OR
0.429***
0.220*
-0.002
OR
1.536
1.247
0.998
Model 5
B
0.348**
0.238*
-0.004
OR
1.417
1.268
0.996
-0.254
-0.561***
-0.458**
0.776
0.571
0.633
-0.302
-0.590***
-0.479**
0.740
0.554
0.620
-0.305
-0.562***
-0.532***
0.737
0.570
0.587
-0.198
-0.411**
-0.414*
0.820
0.663
0.661
-0.284
-0.526*
-0.510**
0.753
0.591
0.600
-0.482***
-0.386**
0.121
0.251
0.617
0.680
1.129
1.285
-0.390*
-0.337**
0.113
0.242
0.130
0.183
0.677
0.714
1.120
1.273
1.139
1.201
-0.377*
-0.361***
0.180
0.167
0.212
0.200
-0.022
0.138
1.460***
0.681***
0.686
0.697
1.197
1.181
1.236
1.222
0.978
1.148
4.306
1.975
-0.352**
-0.370
0.172
0.190
0.271*
0.244
-0.009
-0.061
1.027***
0.674***
0.227
0.703
0.691
1.188
1.209
1.311
1.276
0.991
0.941
2.794
1.962
1.255
-0.346*
-0.339*
0.227
0.275
0.208
0.196
0.067
-0.109
1.025***
0.643***
0.201
0.707
0.713
1.254
1.316
1.232
1.216
1.069
0.897
2.788
1.902
1.223
-0.011
0.989
0.073
1.076
0.367**
0.013
0.561***
1.443
1.013
1.753
0.322**
0.109
0.556***
1.380
1.116
1.744
-0.683***
-1.198
1987.609
0.241
0.325
0.505
0.557
2428.61
0.036
0.048
0.305
2424.815
0.038
0.051
25
-1.270
2205.858
0.146
0.196
-3.570
2080.848
0.202
0.272
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