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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Int Migr Rev. 2009;43(3):621–651. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2009.00779.x

TABLE 2.

Person-Years Up To First Migration Person-Years Up To Second Migration
Mean SD Min Max Mean SD Min Max
Outcome Variables
 Migration 0.080 0.386 0 3 - - - -
 Repeat migration - - - - 0.048 0.312 0 3
Physical Capital
 Home business 0.048 0.213 0 1 0.065 0.246 0 1
 Outside business 0.012 0.108 0 1 0.013 0.113 0 1
Social Capital
 Mother traveled internationally 0.090 0.287 0 1 0.090 0.285 0 1
 Father traveled internationally 0.292 0.455 0 1 0.278 0.448 0 1
 Neighborhood prevalence ratio for within Chitwan migrants 28.051 19.296 0 100 41.395 19.542 0 100
 Neighborhood prevalence ratio for migrants to other districts 10.500 9.804 0 100 12.794 10.085 0 75
 Neighborhood prevalence ratio for international migrants 6.866 8.146 0 66.667 8.540 8.669 0 57.143
Human Capital
 Education 2.363 3.746 0 16 2.031 3.586 0 16
 Salary job 0.059 0.236 0 1 0.071 0.257 0 1
 Wage job 0.314 0.464 0 1 0.386 0.487 0 1
 Served in the military 0.036 0.185 0 1 0.034 0.180 0 1
Migration-specific Human Capital
 First migration within Chitwan - - - - 0.789 0.408 0 1
 First migration to other districts - - - - 0.118 0.323 0 1
 First migration to other countries - - - - 0.092 0.290 0 1
Neighborhood Characteristics
 Electricity 0.175 0.380 0 1 0.189 0.392 0 1
 Indicator of neighborhood development 0.791 1.118 0.024 18.643 0.634 0.556 0.024 13.929
Demographic Variables
 Age 29.376 10.729 16 66 33.241 10.112 17 66
 Age2 978.060 733.362 256 4356 1207.211 736.145 289 4356
 Gender 0.503 0.500 0 1 0.580 0.494 0 1
 Marriage 0.840 0.366 0 1 0.957 0.203 0 1
 Ethnicity
 Hindu upper caste 0.444 0.497 0 1 0.384 0.486 0 1
 Hindu lower caste 0.115 0.318 0 1 0.125 0.331 0 1
 Hill Tibetoburmese 0.158 0.365 0 1 0.191 0.393 0 1
 Newar and other 0.075 0.263 0 1 0.058 0.234 0 1
 Terai Tibetoburmese 0.209 0.406 0 1 0.242 0.428 0 1
 Total no. of person-years 40771 15351