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Table 4 Likelihood of witness/victim attending all required hearings

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

− 0.019

(0.036)

0.019

(0.032)

0.014

(0.021)

Number of required attendances

− 0.016

(0.027)

− 0.014

(0.026)

− 0.016

(0.027)

WCO’s pre-trial (2015) attendance rate

 

0.876*

(0.337)

0.858**

(0.268)

Domestic violence case

  

− 0.097***

(0.021)

Gender-witness/victim is female

  

− 0.028

(0.017)

Gender-witness/victim gender not specified

  

− 0.100

(0.093)

Is a victim

  

− 0.026

(0.024)

Ethnicity-witness/victim is White British

  

0.036*

(0.016)

Ethnicity-witness/victim ethnicity not specified

  

0.048+

(0.028)

Is a key witness

  

0.022

(0.028)

Key witness status not specified

  

0.032

(0.076)

Age-witness/victim is 25–59

  

0.024

(0.022)

Age-witness/victim is 60–69

  

0.081*

(0.034)

Age-witness/victim is 70–79

  

0.034

(0.056)

Age-witness/victim is 80+

  

0.173***

(0.039)

Age-witness/victim is not specified

  

0.119

(0.098)

WCO works in a job share

  

− 0.060

(0.042)

WCO works part time

  

− 0.134**

(0.046)

WCO has 5+ years’ experience

  

0.098**

(0.029)

Constant

0.817***

(0.037)

0.074

(0.275)

0.061

(0.226)

Observations

2516

2516

2516

Adjusted R2

0.000

0.012

0.049

Control mean

0.798

0.798

0.798

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