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Table 2 Descriptive statistics for each candidate variable and correlations with support toward NEPs and SIFs (n = 899)

From: Correlates of public support toward federal funding for harm reduction strategies

Variable

1

2

M

SD

1. NSPs policya

--

 

3.29

.93

2. SIFs policya

.53***

--

2.69

1.07

3. Pol. Ideologyb

.41***

.38***

.87

1.66

4. Gender

−.06

−.05

  

5. Age

.15***

.16***

38.97

13.65

6. Race

−.09*

−.00

  

7. Education

.22***

.15***

  

7. PDSc

−.34***

−.27***

3.62

.93

8. SDSd

−.26***

−.28***

3.08

.53

9. Help/punishmente

−.38***

−.31***

2.39

1.61

10. Religiosity

−.21***

−.17***

2.06

1.02

  1. aNSPs and SIFs policy = policy question assessing participants’ support toward allocating government funds to Needle and Syringe Programs (NSPs) and Safe Injection Facilities (SIFs), respectively. bPol. Ideology = political ideology. cPDS = Perceived Dangerousness Scale. dSDS = Social Distance Scale. eHelp/punishment = semantic differential question assessing participants’ view whether IDUs need help vs. punishment. Gender was coded as 0 = men and 1 = women. Also, given that majority of our participants identified as White or Caucasian (69.9 %) we recoded our Race variable to: 0 = White and 1 = everyone else. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001
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