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Table 2 Analysis of deviance for the logistic regression model fitted with predictors added sequentially

From: Socio-economic and demographic impacts on the full awareness of the methods for controlling/preventing the spread of COVID-19 among social media users in some African countries at the onset of the pandemic

Terms

Degree of freedom

Deviance

Residual degree of freedom

Residual deviance

\(\Pr \left( >\chi ^2\right)\)a

−

  

537

744.44

 

Age

1

228.537

536

515.90

\({<2.2\times 10^{-16}}^{\star \star \star }\)

Gender

1

8.452

535

507.45

\(0.0036^{\star \star }\)

Location

1

20.423

534

487.03

\({6.2\times 10^{-6}}^{\star \star \star }\)

No. of. Social.Media

1

6.075

533

480.95

\(0.0137^{\star }\)

Education::MSc

1

2.740

532

478.21

\(0.0979 ^{\mathbf {\cdot }}\)

Education::PhD

1

1.478

531

476.74

0.2242

Education::BSc

1

15.239

530

461.50

\({9.4\times 10^{-5}}^{\star \star \star }\)

Education::Secondary

1

0.049

529

461.45

0.8242

Education::None

1

0.341

528

461.11

0.5594

Education::Primary

1

1.307

527

459.80

0.2530

Occupation::Employed–

1

8.041

526

451.76

\(0.0046^{\star \star }\)

Occupation::Professional

1

1.833

525

449.93

0.1758

Religion::Islam

1

2.627

524

447.30

0.1050

Religion::Traditional

1

3.043

523

444.26

\(0.0811^{\mathbf {\cdot }}\)

Religion::Buddhism

1

3.292

522

440.96

\(0.0696^{\mathbf {\cdot }}\)

Religion::Hinduism

1

0.160

521

440.80

0.6896

  1. aSignificance level: \(0.1\%^{\star \star \star }\), \(1.0\%^{\star \star }\), \(5.0\%^\star\), \(10.0\%^{\mathbf {\cdot }}\)