Table 1.

Descriptive Information on Individual, Household, and Village Characteristics of Migrants and Nonmigrants in the Nang Rong Survey Data

	Migrants		Nonmigrantsa
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Controls
Age	21.60	4.37	20.72	5.39
Sex (male = 1)	0.51	0.50	0.43	0.50
Some secondary school	0.24	0.42	0.21	0.40
Completed secondary school	0.37	0.48	0.31	0.46
Married	0.27	0.44	0.31	0.46
Number of dependents in the household	2.89	1.58	2.58	1.53
Own no land	0.37	0.48	0.35	0.48
Own 0–10 rai of land	0.15	0.35	0.14	0.35
Own 10–25 rai of land	0.22	0.42	0.22	0.42
Remote village?	0.86	0.34	0.80	0.40
Village has electricity?	0.89	0.31	0.83	0.38
Months of water shortage in village	1.87	1.49	1.73	1.55
Unemployment rate (nonfarm work) in year	1.76	1.08	2.05	1.23
Amount of Migrant Trips
Prior trips by household members (strong ties)	0.75	0.99	0.40	0.76
Prior trips by village members (weak ties)	0.79	0.40	0.60	0.39
Diversity of Migrant Destinations
Diversity of trips by household members (0–10)	0.99	2.06	0.52	1.60
Diversity of trips by village members (0–10)	6.53	1.18	6.59	1.24
Diversity of Migrant Occupations
Diversity of occupations by household members (0–10)	1.93	2.20	0.71	1.61
Diversity of occupations by village members (0–10)	8.36	1.38	8.28	1.63
Accessibility of Migrant Trips
Equality in distribution of village trips (0–10)	8.24	1.28	7.44	1.75
Attributes of Recipients
Relative migrant experience (RME) of individuals (0–10)	1.03	1.06	0.23	0.72
N (person-years)	7,616		16,175
Persons	1,655		2,420
Households	1,012		1,371
Villages	22		22

Note: The difference between means for migrants and nonmigrants is significant for all migrant social capital indicators at p < .001.

^aNonmigrants are individuals who have not migrated in a given year in the 1984–1994 period. Nonmigrant households contain no migrant individuals in a given year. The migrant status of an individual or household changes from year to year.