Table 2.

Individual-level descriptive statistics of independent variables

Variable	Retrospective Data			Prospective data
	Mean	Median	S.D.	Mean	Median	S.D.
Educational attainment (yrs of school completed)
Attainment men	7.38	8	5.36	5.76	6.00	4.37
Attainment women	4.31	1	5.11	3.00	0	3.87
	Mean		S.D.	Mean		S.D.
Marital Status*
Single	0.35		0.48	0.19		0.39
Married and living with spouse	0.52		0.50	0.53		0.50
Married and not living with sps	0.08		0.28	0.24		0.43
Divorced/Separated	0.02		0.13	0.01		0.09
Widowed	0.02		0.15	0.03		0.17
Employment*	0.39		0.49	0.44		0.50
Childhood Community Index (before age 12)	3.43		1.69	3.40		1.69
Adult Community Index*	4.52		1.13	3.56		1.30
Parental Characteristics
Parents’ Education	0.32		0.46	0.30		0.46
Parents’ Work	0.50		0.50	0.48		0.50
Parents’ Travel	0.36		0.48	0.35		0.48
Ethnicity
Upper Caste Hindu	0.45		0.50	0.46		0.50
Lower Caste Hindu	0.11		0.31	0.10		0.30
Newar	0.06		0.24	0.06		0.24
Hill Tibeto-Burmese	0.17		0.37	0.15		0.36
Terai Tibeto-Burmese	0.18		0.38	0.21		0.41
Birth Cohort
Cohort 1 (born after 1971)	0.24		0.43	0.25		0.43
Cohort 2 (born 1962–71)	0.28		0.45	0.27		0.45
Cohort 3 (born 1952–61)	0.22		0.41	0.21		0.41
Cohort 4 (born 1942–51)	0.17		0.37	0.17		0.37
Cohort 5 (born 1932–41)	0.09		0.29	0.10		0.29
Individual Characteristics
Sex (Female)	0.52		0.50	0.53		0.50
Born in Chitwan	0.47		0.50	0.50		0.50
Moved to Chitwan after age 12	0.35		0.48	0.32		0.47
N (# of people) =	4825			3819

^*Time-varying measures are for last observed month.