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Table 3 Likelihood of witness/victim attending at least one hearing

From: Testimony at court: a randomised controlled trial investigating the art and science of persuading witnesses and victims to attend trial

Variable

Model (1)

Model (2)

Model (3)

Treatment

− 0.015

(0.032)

0.021

(0.028)

0.019

(0.018)

WCO’s pre-trial (2015) attendance rate

 

0.831**

(0.300)

0.832**

(0.234)

Domestic violence case

  

− 0.095***

(0.021)

Gender-witness/victim is female

  

− 0.022

(0.017)

Gender-witness/victim gender not specified

  

− 0.057

(0.096)

Is a victim

  

− 0.041+

(0.024)

Ethnicity-witness/victim is White British

  

0.024

(0.017)

Ethnicity-witness/victim ethnicity not specified

  

0.031

(0.027)

Is a key witness

  

0.032

(0.023)

Key witness status not specified

  

0.008

(0.086)

Age-witness/victim is 25–59

  

0.018

(0.019)

Age-witness/victim is 60–69

  

0.079*

(0.036)

Age-witness/victim is 70–79

  

0.011

(0.059)

Age-witness/victim is 80+

  

0.147***

(0.037)

Age-witness/victim age is not specified

  

0.085

(0.088)

WCO works in a job share

  

− 0.039

(0.036)

WCO works part time

  

− 0.126**

(0.045)

WCO has 5+ years’ experience

  

0.094***

(0.023)

Constant

0.821***

(0.022)

0.120

(0.255)

0.098

(0.202)

Observations

2516

2516

2516

Adjusted R2

− 0.000

0.011

0.047

Control mean

0.821

0.821

0.821

  1. Robust standard errors are clustered at the WCO level and appear in parentheses
  2. *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, + p < 0.1