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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 2 Results from analysis of the impact of economic level on paper and paperboard demand

From: Socioeconomic factors influencing global paper and paperboard demand

Use

Regression model

Estimation method

Adj. R 2

a

b 1

b 2

b 3

b 4

Newsprint paper

Linear

Fixed

0.4798

6.36e−03**

3.49e−07**

Quadratic

Random

0.5198

−1.52e−03*

1.34e−06**

−1.80e−11*

Cubic

Random

0.5195

−1.72e−03

2.28e−17**

−2.01e−11**

1.39e−06

Logarithmic

Random

0.4378

−3.12e−02**

4.67e−03**

Printing and writing paper

Linear

Fixed

0.5858

−3.34e−03**

1.86e−06**

Quadratic

Fixed

0.6081

−1.35e−02**

3.37e−06**

−2.54e−11**

Cubic

Fixed

0.6007

−1.87e−01**

4.51e−06**

−6.67e−11**

4.19e−16**

Logarithmic

Fixed

0.4625

−1.78e−01**

2.34e−02**

Sanitary paper

Linear

Random

0.3677

1.30e−03

2.88e−07**

Quadratic

Fixed

0.4670

−2.97e−03**

8.87e−07**

−9.33e−12**

Cubic

Random

0.4667

1.10e−03

1.22e−07

1.56e−11**

−2.37e−16**

Logarithmic

Fixed

0.4020

−3.78e−01**

4.98e−03**

Wrapping paper and corrugated cardboard

Linear

Random

0.5055

5.76e−03**

1.78e−06**

Quadratic

Fixed

0.6134

−1.40e−02**

5.39e−06**

−5.92e−11**

Cubic

Fixed

0.6144

−1.26e−02**

5.11e−06**

−4.94e−11**

−9.84e−17

Logarithmic

Fixed

0.5091

−2.91e−02**

3.76e−02**

Other paper and paperboard

Linear

Fixed

0.1434

8.88e−03**

−9.59e−08*

Quadratic

Fixed

0.1468

8.95e−03**

−1.04e−07

1.37e−13

Cubic

Random

0.1648

1.53e−04

1.26e−06**

−4.36e−11**

4.11e−16**

Logarithmic

Fixed

0.1456

6.66e−03

9.44e−05

  1. “Fixed” denotes fixed-effects estimation and “Random” denotes random-effects estimation. Adj. R 2 denotes the adjusted coefficient of determination
  2. **,* 1 and 5% significance levels, respectively. The numbers of countries (n) and the total sample size (N) were 92 and 2112 for newsprint paper, 104 and 2607 for printing and writing paper, 84 and 1601 for sanitary paper, 113 and 2300 for wrapping paper and corrugated cardboard, and 66 and 1451 for other paper and paperboard, respectively