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Table 7 Summary statistics of independent variables of OLS regression

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

Migration intensity

243

−0.09

1.27

−8.92

1.98

Migrant characteristics

 Female migrant (1 yes,0 no)

243

0.53

0.50

0.00

1.00

 Marital status (1 single, 0 others)

243

0.78

0.41

0.00

1.00

 Age (years)

243

24.40

5.33

15.00

47.00

 Age squared

243

623.58

291.46

196

2209

 Number of years in school (years)

243

10.62

3.75

2.00

19.00

 Government support (1 yes, 0 no)

243

0.05

0.23

0.00

1.00

 Experienced to shocks in the cities (1 yes, 0 no)

243

0.42

0.49

0.00

1.00

Household characteristics

 Female household head (1 yes, 0 no)

243

0.16

0.36

0.00

1.00

 Total land own (ha)

243

0.74

1.14

0.00

12.05

 Total household members

243

6.43

1.65

2.00

11.00

 Household participated on non-farm activities (1 yes, 0 no)

243

0.63

0.48

0.00

1.00

Village characteristics

 Access to public water supply (% households in village)

243

32.97

40.93

0.00

100

 Access to the Internet (% households in village)

243

3.50

10.93

0.00

100

 Number of enterprises in the village

243

0.13

0.54

0.00

5.00

 Number of social problems in the village

243

0.42

0.68

0.00

3.00

  1. Source: own calculations based on the DFG Rural Household Surveys and DFG Migrant Survey in 2010