An ecometric analysis of neighbourhood cohesion

Table 5 Estimated parameters in covariate-free multilevel models

Parameter	Description	Neighbourhood Belonging	Social Cohesion
$\hat{θ}$ ₁	baseline parameter 1	-4.890 (-4.985, -4.795)	-3.698 (-3.744, -3.652)
$\hat{θ}$ ₂	baseline parameter 2	-3.718 (-3.808, -3.628)	-2.574 (-2.614, -2.535)
$\hat{θ}$ ₃	baseline parameter 3	-1.368 (-1.453, -1.282)	-1.430 (-1.468, -1.393)
$\hat{θ}$ ₄	baseline parameter 4	1.548 (1.462, 1.634)	1.338 (1.300, 1.376)
$\hat{γ}$ ₁	attracted to n'hood	-0.201 (-0.232, -0.170)
$\hat{γ}$ ₂	belong to n'hood	-0.131 (-0.162, -0.100)
$\hat{γ}$ ₃	visit friends		0.120 (0.091, 0.148)
$\hat{γ}$ ₄	friendships mean a lot		-0.235 (-0.264, -0.206)
$\hat{γ}$ ₅	would like to move	0.428 (0.396, 0.459)
$\hat{γ}$ ₆	could go for advice		0.422 (0.394, 0.450)
$\hat{γ}$ ₇	n'bours help in emergency		-1.379 (-1.411, -1.346)
$\hat{γ}$ ₈	exchange favours with n'bours		0.801 (0.773, 0.830)
$\hat{γ}$ ₉	work together to improve		-0.256 (-0.285, -0.227)
$\hat{γ}$ ₁₀	plan to remain resident	-0.546 (-0.578, -0.514)
$\hat{γ}$ ₁₁	similar to people in n'hood	-0.229 (-0.260, -0.198)
$\hat{γ}$ ₁₂	rarely have n'bour visit		1.160 (1.132, 1.189)
$\hat{γ}$ ₁₃	regularly talk with people		-0.633 (-0.663, -0.603)
$\hat{γ}$ ₁₄	sense of community	0.402 (0.371, 0.432)
$\hat{γ}$ ₁₅	good place for children	0.278 (0.247, 0.308)
${\hat{σ}}_{U}^{2}$	ED-level variance	0.399 (0.355, 0.447)	0.029 (0.028, 0.031)
${\hat{σ}}_{V}^{2}$	individual-level variance	4.773 (4.663, 4.886)	1.829 (1.785, 1.871)

Estimates of fixed-effect coefficients are on the log-odds scale. 95% confidence intervals are given in parentheses. The abbreviations n'hood, n'bour(s) and ED refer, respectively, to neighbourhood, neighbour(s) and enumeration district.

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