Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?

Figures & data

Table 1. Statements measuring regional resentment.^a

Statement no.	Statement
1	‘Politicians in The Hague are not interested in my region’ (POL)
2	‘The government has done too little to improve the economic situation of my region’ (ECO)
3	‘People in the rest of the Netherlands do not have enough appreciation for the people in my region’ (APPR)

Note: ^aThe Dutch wordings were: ‘Politici in Den Haag zijn niet geïnteresseerd in mijn regio’; ‘De overheid heeft te weinig gedaan om de economische situatie in mijn regio te verbeteren’; and ‘Mensen in de rest van Nederland hebben te weinig waardering voor mensen uit mijn regio’, respectively.

Table 2. Descriptives for items measuring regional resentment.

Variable	N	Mean	SD	Minimum	Maximum
POL	6360	4.82	1.71	1	7
ECO	5889	4.40	1.67	1	7
APPR	5545	4.07	1.86	1	7

Figure 1. Regional resentment over combinations of urbanity and distance to parliament.

Figure 2. Multilevel regression predicting regional resentment.

Figure 3. Predicted regional resentment based on distance to parliament and urbanity.

Note: With overlaid distribution of peripherality and urbanity.

Figure 4. Marginal effects of regional identification and of deprivation indicators, by urbanity category.

Figure 5. Marginal effects of regional identification and of deprivation indicators, by distance to parliament.

DATA AVAILABILITY

The data and replication syntax for this study is available at https://osf.io/j3sr9/?view_only=d26bbfab71374e148474d5e4db2e0d76.