Erratum to: Fisher, Dana R., and William R. Freudenburg. 2004. "Post Industrialization and Environmental Quality: An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental State." Social Forces. Volume 83(1): 157-88

Abstract

In the published version of this paper, Table 3 incorrectly reported the first set of regression coefficients for the Ecological Footprint variable. Although the significance level was correctly reported, the error might have conveyed to some readers the impression that there was a potentially important degree of fluctuation in coefficients between the full model and the subsequent models — an indicator of potential problems of multicollinearity — when the actual standardized and unstandardized coefficients were −.165 and −.304, respectively, making them almost identical to the coefficients in the second model. When the full set of coefficients is considered, it can be seen that, even though the table reports a total of 54 coefficients, there are no cases where the coefficients change signs, and there is only one case where the standardized coefficient changes by as much as 0.1 — the change from +.656 to +.547 for Motor Vehicle Travel, per capita, between the third and fourth models.