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Table 6 Summary statistics of independent variables of the random-effect Tobit regression model

From: Staying in the cities or returning home? An analysis of the rural-urban migration behavior in Vietnam

Variables

Obs

Mean

Std. dev.

Min

Max

Individual characteristics

 Female (1 yes, 0 no)

21,045

0.50

0.50

0

1.00

 Number of years in school

21,045

7.90

4.06

0

20

 Marital status (1 single, 0 others)

21,045

0.42

0.49

0

1.00

 Age (years)

21,045

30.20

13.38

11

64

 Square of age

21,045

1090

905.4

121

4096

Household characteristics

 Female head (1 yes, 0 no)

21,045

0.13

0.33

0

1.00

 Age of HH head (years)

21,045

48.55

10.76

20

99

 Numbers of years in school of HH head

21,045

6.87

3.99

0

20

 Dependency ratio

21,045

0.22

0.20

0

0.8

 HH participated in non-farm activities (1 yes, 0 no)

21,045

0.28

0.45

0

1.00

 Total own land (ha)

21,045

0.95

2.53

0

62.22

 Total number of demographic shocks

21,045

0.41

0.67

0

6.00

 Total number of social shocks

21,045

0.06

0.24

0

2.00

 Total number of agricultural shocks

21,045

0.74

0.91

0

6.00

 Total number of economics shocks

21,045

0.06

0.31

0

3.00

Village characteristics

 Number of enterprises

21,045

0.18

1.77

0

30

 Access to the Internet (% of households)

21,045

0.98

5.01

0

100

 Log of distance to district town

21,045

2.31

0.82

−1.61

4.32

 Ha Tinh province (1 yes, 0 no)

21,045

0.31

0.46

0

1.00

 Thua Thien Hue province (1 yes, 0 no)

21,045

0.33

0.47

0

1.00

 Dak Lak province (1 yes, 0 no)

21,045

0.37

0.48

0

1.00

  1. Source: own calculations based on the pooled data of DFG Rural Household Surveys 2007, 2008, and 2010