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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
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