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Appendix: STATA log
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Serial number: 50120558076
rs str14 %14s recommending state
. *tabulation of acceptance rate for SOGI rights*
. tab accepted
. *central tendency and spread of dependent variable*
. summarize accepted
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max ---+--- accepted | 501 .3592814 .4802694 0 1
.
. *Tabulation of recommendations made by regional group*
. tab rgrp_rs
. /*Tabulation og recommendations received by regional
> group*/
GRULAC | 121 24.15 88.62 WEOG | 57 11.38 100.00 ---+--- Total | 501 100.00
.
. /*Correlation between recommending region and region
> of the SuR*/
. tab2 rgrp_sur2 rgrp_rs2, column nokey -> tabulation of rgrp_sur2 by rgrp_rs2
regional | regional group rs
Test of Ho: rgrp_rs2 and rgrp_sur2 are independent Prob > |t| = 0.7938
.
. /*tabulation of accepted recommendations by regional
> group of RS*/
. /*Correlation between accpetance and regional group
> of the SuR*/
. tab2 accept rgrp_sur2, column nokey -> tabulation of accepted by rgrp_sur2
dummy of |
response | regional group sur
variable | Africa Asia GRULAC EEG WEOG | Total
Test of Ho: accepted and rgrp_sur2 are independent Prob > |t| = 0.0000
.
. /*Accepted recomemendations by regional group of RS
> and SuR*/
. tab2 rgrp_rs rgrp_sur if accepted==1
-> tabulation of rgrp_rs by rgrp_sur if accepted==1
regional |
. tab2 rgrp_rs rgrp_sur if accepted==1, column nokey -> tabulation of rgrp_rs by rgrp_sur if accepted==1
regional |
. /*tabulation of accepted recommendations by regional
. *Tabulation of SOGI recommendations by action category*
. tab action -> tabulation of action by rgrp_rs2
action | regional group rs -> tabulation of accepted by action
dummy of |
Test of Ho: accepted and action are independent Prob > |t| = 0.0000
Logistic regression Number of obs = 501
Logistic regression Number of obs = 490
. *Effect of other independent variables on HDI*
. logistic accepted ib(last).action hdi10
1 | .0721522 .0455775 -4.16 0.000 .0209198 .2488524
. /*High correlation between regional group of the SuR
> and the HDI*/
---
Eigenvalues & Cond Index computed from scaled raw sscp (w/ intercept) Det(correlation matrix) 0.2894
---+---
2 | 11.73077 10.4484 2.76 0.006 2.047272 67.21673