What makes you go back home? Determinants of the duration of migration of Mexican immigrants in the United States

Table 2 Summary statistics

Variable characteristic	Variable name	Definition	First migration sample		Last migration sample
Variable characteristic	Variable name	Definition	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
Individual	Age	Age at time of migration	26	9.252	26	9.010
	Married MX	1 if married and spouse resides in Mexico	0.888	0.35	0.972	0.165
	Married US	1 if married and spouse resides in USA	0.089	0.285	0.093	0.291
	Children	Number of children less than 15 years old	1.114	0.815	1.133	0.832
Occupation	Agricultural	1 if in agriculture	0.285	0.451	0.305	0.461
	Professional	1 if practices profession	0.052	0.222	0.056	0.231
	Manufacturing	1 if in manufacturing	0.176	0.381	0.219	0.414
	Unskilled	1 if unskilled laborer	0.163	0.369	0.152	0.359
	Self-employed	1 if self-employed	0.206	0.405	0.197	0.398
Household	Mother US	1 if mother resides in USA	0.103	0.304	0.098	0.297
	Father US	1 if father resides in USA	0.324	0.468	0.322	0.467
	Property MX	1 if owns property in Mexico	0.724	0.447	0.732	0.443
Origin	Urban	1 if comes from urban area	0.175	0.380	0.166	0.372
Schooling	Elementary	1 if completed 5th–6th grade	0.312	0.463	0.291	0.454
	Some middle education	1 if completed 7th–8th grade	0.052	0.222	0.047	0.212
	Middle education	1 if completed 9th grade	0.117	0.322	0.107	0.309
	Some high school	1 if completed 10th–11th grade	0.031	0.173	0.028	0.165
	High school	1 if completed 12th grade	0.045	0.207	0.041	0.198
	Some college education	1 if completed 13th–15th grade	0.027	0.163	0.025	0.156
	College education	1 if completed 16th–17th grade	0.024	0.154	0.022	0.146
	Some grad education	1 if completed 18th+ grade	0.009	0.094	0.008	0.091