This appendix presents a series of tables upon which the analysis of the political beliefs of officials and entrepreneurs in Chapter 5 is based. For all tables, the data source is the survey of local party and government officials and private entrepreneurs. I used ordered probit regression analysis instead of the more familiar ordinary least squares regression because ordered probit assumes the dependent variable has only a small number of possible values and that these values are rank ordered. For most of the questions concerning political beliefs, there were four possible responses: strongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree. When a different set of responses was used, this is indicated in the wording of the question presented at the top of each table.

For each question, the results of two models are presented. The first includes all respondents in the survey, officials and entrepreneurs alike, and is intended to show where there are significant differences between the two groups when other factors, such as age and education, are held constant. The second model looks just at the entrepreneurs, and includes variables specific to their entrepreneurial pursuits.