Table 3 Testing for differentiation between types of debt by media outlet (Eq. 2) (OLS estimates with year fixed effects)a
From: Apples, oranges and lemons: public sector debt statistics in the 21st century
Telegraph (Bn £) | Mail (Bn £) | Times (Bn £) | Express (Bn £) | Independent (Bn £) | Guardian (Bn £) | Mirror (Bn v | Sun (Bn £) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Debt | 35.98 (36.68) | − 118.38 (178.25) | 338.68 (260.62) | 66.57 (61.42) | 34.31 (68.44) | 88.55 (68.51) | −61.85 (27.83) | −16.10 (78.32) |
Public Debt | −37.31 (52.86) | −271.84 (187.68) | 104.23 (135.19) | −239.55 (187.92) | 34.89 (125.13) | 152.68 (107.63) | −13.30 (38.67) | −29.59 (80.10) |
Government Debt | 72.05 (48.22) | −150.91 (188.23) | 160.83 (111.37) | 130.87 (129.79) | − 149.64 (132.93) | −21.05 (120.39) | − 42.47 (37.06) | − 103.12 (93.90) |
Country Debt | 40.64 (47.04) | − 140.76 (180.70) | 349.12 (185.79) | −21.98 (67.67) | 158.27 (85.62) | − 348.09 (439.84) | −14.81 (21.02) | 717.68 (273.49) |
Obs | 448 | 510 | 222 | 186 | 140 | 106 | 108 | 100 |
F-testb | 1.30 | 0.97 | 2.30* | 2.37* | 2.20* | 0.76 | 0.92 | 3.28** |
R2 | 0.50 | 0.23 | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.59 | 0.53 | 0.76 | 0.60 |