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. 2012 Jun 22;28(3):241–268. doi: 10.1007/s10680-012-9265-2

Table 2.

Descriptive information on independent variables by country (mean and standard deviation)

Total Netherlands Belgium Sweden France Germany Switzerland Austria
N 1,437 226 296 135 167 225 178 210
Range Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Family factors
 Human capital mother −2.25 to 1.40 −0.26 1.00 −0.38 1.05 −0.49 1.06 0.29 0.90 −0.47 1.00 −0.58 1.08 0.09 0.90 0.14 0.87
 Human capital father −4.53 to 1.05 −0.19 1.10 −0.35 1.28 −0.37 1.27 0.27 0.52 −0.39 0.80 −0.36 1.11 −0.03 0.99 0.22 0.98
 Parents grew up in rural Anatolia 0/1 0.51 0.50 0.64 0.48 0.41 0.41 0.75 0.43 0.43 0.50 0.53 0.50 0.40 0.49 0.45 0.50
 Number of siblings 0–6 3.01 1.44 3.13 1.51 3.46 1.50 3.09 1.45 2.98 1.53 2.95 1.31 2.47 1.30 2.67 1.21
Peer factors
 Contact to non-coethnic peers −3.00 to 1.14 −0.15 1.05 −0.26 0.84 −0.22 1.06 −0.08 1.16 0.20 0.88 −0.42 1.13 0.15 1.09 −0.15 1.03
 Percentage of natives in secondary school 1–5 3.35 1.07 2.89 1.18 3.19 1.00 3.35 1.04 3.32 0.96 3.4 0.80 3.67 1.12 3.81 1.07
Individual characteristics
 Birth cohort
  1970–1974 0/1 0.17 0.38 0.17 0.38 0.14 0.35 0.13 0.34 0.13 0.33 0.24 0.43 0.23 0.42 0.15 0.36
  1975–1979 0/1 0.40 0.49 0.42 0.49 0.46 0.50 0.47 0.50 0.49 0.50 0.39 0.49 0.29 0.46 0.26 0.44
  1980–84 0/1 0.34 0.47 0.36 0.48 0.28 0.45 0.35 0.48 0.32 0.47 0.32 0.47 0.33 0.47 0.43 0.50
  1985–1990 0/1 0.10 0.29 0.05 0.22 0.11 0.32 0.05 0.22 0.07 0.25 0.05 0.23 0.15 0.35 0.16 0.37
 No completed level secondary education 0/1 0.07 0.25 0.16 0.37 0.03 0.18 0.02 0.12 0.07 0.26 0.03 0.17 0.16 0.37 0.02 0.15
 Lower secondary education 0/1 0.45 0.50 0.64 0.48 0.49 0.50 0.24 0.43 0.54 0.50 0.36 0.48 0.60 0.49 0.21 0.41
 Vocational track 0/1 0.30 0.46 0.13 0.34 0.25 0.44 0.42 0.49 0.18 0.39 0.50 0.50 0.16 0.37 0.46 0.50
 General/academic track 0/1 0.19 0.39 0.075 0.26 0.22 0.42 0.33 0.47 0.21 0.41 0.12 0.32 0.09 0.29 0.31 0.46
Context factors
 Size Turkish second generation 18–35 years 0.14–1.40 0.73 0.32 1.11 0.31 0.89 0.04 0.76 0.00 0.42 0.13 0.88 0.15 0.44 0.07 0.32 0.16
 Multicultural immigration policies 0/1 0.46 0.50 1.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Control variables
 Not raised religiously 0/1 0.16 0.36 0.12 0.33 0.13 0.34 0.39 0.49 0.17 0.38 0.08 0.28 0.29 0.45 0.08 0.27
 Christian 0/1 0.29 0.17 0.02 0.14 0.02 0.12 0.16 0.37 0.02 0.14 0.03 0.16 0.01 0.12 0.01 0.10
 Shia/Alevi 0/1 0.10 0.30 0.07 0.26 0.06 0.24 0.03 0.16 0.06 0.23 0.23 0.47 0.17 0.38 0.10 0.30
 Sunni 0/1 0.71 0.45 0.79 0.41 0.80 0.40 0.43 0.50 0.75 0.43 0.66 0.47 0.53 0.38 0.81 0.39
 Woman 0/1 0.58 0.50 0.54 0.50 0.47 0.50 0.54 0.50 0.70 0.46 0.57 0.50 0.54 0.50 0.60 0.49
 Age at union formation 15–34 21.94 3.10 21.67 2.96 21.61 3.28 22.32 3.00 22.12 3.24 22.94 3.11 22.22 3.09 21.02 2.84

Source TIES data 2007–2008