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Published in final edited form as: J Urban Econ. 2012 Mar;71(2):219–229. doi: 10.1016/j.jue.2011.11.002

Appendix Table 1.

Summary Statistics: NSSRN 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004

	All State	States with >5% Foreign-born Population

Average Number of US born Nurses/state	48760 (50190)	62002 (57698)
Average Number of Foreign-trained Nurses/state	1977 (4032)	3105 (5202)
Average Number of Foreign-trained Nurses, lagged by four years/state	1685 (3775)	2909 (4867)
Average Log Number of US born Nurses/state	10.28 (1.07)	10.51 (1.16)
Average Lagged Log Foreign-trained Nurses/state	6.00 (1.76)	6.84 (1.77)
Log Working Age Population/state	14.44 (1.03)	14.72 (1.07)
Proportion of Population Elderly	0.13 (0.02)	0.12 (0.23)
Proportion of Population Black	0.11 (0.12)	0.06 (0.05)
Unemployment Rate	5.30 (1.65)	5.42 (1.64)
Per-capita Income ($10,000s)	2.42 (0.69)	2.61 (0.72)
Population Growth (4-Year Change)	0.04 (0.04)	0.06 (0.05)
Inpatient Admissions (per capita)	1.07 (0.43)	1.02 (0.51)
Outpatient Visits (per capita)	2.02 (0.68)	1.95 (0.68)

Note: Figures in parenthesis correspond to standard errors.