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Table 2 Selected descriptive statistics

From: Education, job insecurity and the within country migration of couples

 

(1) Full sample

(2) Power couple

(3) Male power

(4) Female power

(5) No-power couple

Mean

S.Dev.

Mean

S.Dev.

Mean

S.Dev.

Mean

Mean

Mean

S.Dev.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

Male (panel 1)

 Education (years)

12.79

2.74

16.63

2.17

16.33

1.99

11.76

1.12

11.30

1.22

 Over-education

0.2

2.24

2.39

2.43

2.35

2.30

−0.70

1.67

−0.60

1.47

 Age

38.71

8.38

38.68

7.72

40.33

7.76

38.63

8.44

38.44

8.62

 MSR unemployment rate

0.06

0.01

0.05

0.01

0.05

0.01

0.06

0.01

0.06

0.01

 MSR job market insecurity

12.22

1.56

12.49

1.70

12.4

1.61

12.25

1.55

12.10

1.50

 Employed

0.94

 

0.97

 

0.97

 

0.95

 

0.92

 

 Unemployed

0.02

 

0.01

 

0.01

 

0.02

 

0.02

 

 Not in labour force

0.05

 

0.02

 

0.03

 

0.04

 

0.06

 

Female (panel 2)

 Education (years)

12.94

2.55

16.38

1.90

11.94

1.09

15.76

1.53

11.41

1.18

 Over-education

0.43

2.14

2.46

2.39

−0.41

1.57

2.11

2.05

−0.43

1.41

 Age

36.42

7.97

36.62

7.30

37.82

7.32

36.06

7.36

36.20

8.37

 MSR unemployment rate

0.05

0.01

0.05

0.01

0.05

0.01

0.06

0.01

0.05

0.01

 MSR job market insecurity

11.11

1.69

11.49

1.83

11.38

1.78

11.17

1.70

10.94

1.61

 Employed

0.75

 

0.85

 

0.71

 

0.84

 

0.71

 

 Unemployed

0.02

 

0.01

 

0.02

 

0.01

 

0.03

 

 Not in labour force

0.23

 

0.14

 

0.27

 

0.15

 

0.26

 

Household (panel 3)

 Size

3.57

1.25

3.36

1.15

3.70

1.25

3.36

1.20

3.66

1.27

 Age (couple average)

37.56

7.85

37.65

7.19

39.08

7.21

37.34

7.50

37.32

8.19

 Education (couple average)

12.87

2.26

16.51

1.60

14.14

1.14

13.76

0.99

11.35

0.95

 Dependent child

0.63

 

0.60

 

0.66

 

0.60

 

0.64

 

 Disposable income ($10,000)

7.89

4.40

10.53

5.59

8.93

5.04

8.24

4.59

6.86

3.33

 Female income share

0.32

0.25

0.36

0.21

0.25

0.21

0.41

0.25

0.30

0.25

 Foreign

0.30

0.46

0.42

0.49

0.32

0.47

0.32

0.47

0.25

0.43

 Home owners

0.74

0.44

0.80

0.40

0.79

0.41

0.78

0.42

0.71

0.45

 Female earned more

0.21

0.41

0.24

0.43

0.12

0.33

0.37

0.48

0.18

0.38

 Male earned more

0.71

0.45

0.72

0.45

0.85

0.36

0.59

0.49

0.72

0.45

Observations

14,097

 

2385

 

1472

 

2040

 

8200

 
  1. HILDA Survey – Waves 2 to 9 (Pooled). Standard deviations not provided for simple binary (dummy) variables