Table 1.

Descriptive statistics

Variable	Obs	Mean	Std. Dev	Min	Max
Life satisfaction	5192	4.692	2.213	1	10
Health Status	5192	3.585	1.119	1	5
Marital status	.	.	.	.	.
Married	5188	.354	.478	0	1
Living with partner	5188	.039	.194	0	1
Widow/Widower	5188	.14	.347	0	1
Divorced or separated	5188	.037	.188	0	1
Never Married	5188	.43	.495	0	1
Relative income	.	.	.	.	.
Below average income	4989	.562	.496	0	1
Average income	4989	.366	.482	0	1
Above average income	4989	.072	.258	0	1
Importance of religion	.	.	.	.	.
Not important at all	5140	.026	.16	0	1
Unimportant	5140	.059	.236	0	1
Important	5140	.504	.5	0	1
Very important	5140	.411	.492	0	1
Place of residence	.	.	.	.	.
Rurala	5188	.522	.5	0	1
Urban	5188	.478	.5	0	1
Number of children	5192	1.769	2.026	0	12
Household income	5192	4960.701	15,623.428	71.112	1,015,900
Gender	.	.	.	.	.
Male	5192	.332	.471	0	1
Female	5192	.668	.471	0	1
Ethnicity	.	.	.	.	.
African	5192	.893	.309	0	1
Coloured	5192	.09	.286	0	1
White	5192	.017	.13	0	1
Education categories	.	.	.	.	.
no schooling	5181	.094	.292	0	1
primary	5181	.274	.446	0	1
secondary incomplete	5181	.439	.496	0	1
Matric	5181	.117	.322	0	1
post-secondaryb	5181	.075	.263	0	1
Age categories	.	.	.	.	.
teenager	5191	.037	.189	0	1
youth	5191	.33	.47	0	1
adult	5191	.448	.497	0	1
pensioner	5191	.185	.388	0	1
Employment status	.	.	.	.	.
Not Economically Active	5180	.486	.5	0	1
Unemployed Discouraged	5180	.03	.17	0	1
Unemployed Strict	5180	.137	.344	0	1
Employed	5180	.347	.476	0	1

^aCommunal land dwellers

^bMatric plus certificate to PhD