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Determinants of book reading and library attendance in Colombia. A microeconometric approach

Author(s) -

María Luisa Palma,

Luis Fernando Aguado Quintero,

Ana María Osório

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

economics and business letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197

H-Index - 4

ISSN - 2254-4380

DOI - 10.17811/ebl.3.2.2014.79-86

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , attendance , variance (accounting) , neighbourhood (mathematics) , multilevel model , reading (process) , demographic economics , sociology , econometrics , demography , geography , statistics , economics , political science , mathematics , economic growth , mathematical analysis , population , accounting , law

The article explores the determinants of the decision to read books and visit libraries in a developing country, Colombia, based on data from the Encuesta de Consumo Cultural 2008 [Cultural Consumption Survey] (ECC2008). For this purpose, multilevel logistic regressions are estimated, results showing that a high level of education and a greater socioeconomic status have a positive and significant effect on the decision to read, whereas socioeconomic status does not prove significant vis-a-vis library visits. Moreover, the VPC (Variance Partition Coefficient), 5.33% (6.58%) of the residual variation in the propensity to read at least one book (visit a library), can be attributed to unobserved features of the neighbourhood

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