Table 3 Summary statistics: temporary and permanent migrants

From: How do migrants save? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey on temporary and permanent migrants versus natives

	(1)		(2)
	Temporary		Permanent
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	31.14	12.26	39.57	12.38
Male %	0.45	0.50	0.58	0.49
Married %	0.34	0.48	0.70	0.46
Employed %	0.52	0.51	0.56	0.50
No Qualification	0.27	0.45	0.24	0.43
O level	0.18	0.39	0.13	0.33
No College	0.23	0.42	0.38	0.49
University Degree	0.32	0.47	0.25	0.43
Declare to save (monthly) %	0.39	0.49	0.39	0.49
Amount of saving (monthly)	59.89	168.88	58.43	160.20
Remitter %	0.05	0.21	0.12	0.33
Amount of Remittances	250.00	430.80	268.90	419.84
Holding Assets %	0.07	0.24	0.24	1.35
Duration of Migration	20.26	10.66	24.72	13.11
N	144		7665

Source: British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008).
All monetary variables are deflated by 2005 CPI.

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