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There remain 1,120 people between 22 and 86 years old who cast their vote at least once.
Rounded to the nearest integer for mean Age and median Age were: for all 1,120: 44/46y;
for those 1,082 older than 23y: 45/47y; for those 947 older than 26y: 48/49y. 36 Hence,
after shifting back by 9, 6, and 4 years respectively, the true mean/median Ages were:
39/40y in 1996, 39/41y in 1999 and 40/42y in 2001. Israeli Interior Ministry statistics
show a median 28.5y, but over the total population, including the youngsters. Those
younger than 19 years old constituted about 37% of the total. Recalculating the averages
for eligible voters (18 years old and older), we found the median Age for the total falls in
the middle of the 35-44y old group, a good agreement with the data from our poll.
Again, as in the aggregate data analysis, the DGL variable was measured as the distance
to the closest point from Judea, Samaria, or Gaza. Since 90% of those participants living
within the GL were from the city of Ariel, and since the latter is not considered to be a
religious settlement, we decided to keep all of the entries in the analysis, setting the DGL
for them as zero. The negative feature of the poll data was that DGL variable correlated
with practically all other variables: Distance to the Border, Location at Sea, Religion,
etc., at the ** level. Therefore, we could not avoid the multicolinearity problem. Apart
from that, the results in all three elections show strongly the importance of the P-factor,
and, to lesser degree, the geographical variable.
Since the dependent variables Vote96, Vote99, and Vote01 are binary (1-Right, 0-Left),
we ran a binary logistic regression. There are many ways, however, to discuss its