5.5. A survey of adults in the USA asked a series of questions about support for various policies related to the treatment of criminal offenders. One question focused on the level of support for the use of the death penalty—whether the respondent was opposed to its use, neutral, or favored its use. An ordinal logistic regression model that included age (years), sex (1 ¼ male, 0 ¼ female), race (1 ¼ African American, 0 ¼ white), education (number of years completed), and degree of political liberalism (1 ¼ low, 10 ¼ high) produced the following results:

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE b Age 0.03 Sex 0.41 Race 0.65 Education 0.18 Liberalism 0.21 Calculate the odds ratio for each coefficient, and explain what each odds ratio means