Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of the CVFS sample in 1997

Measure	Range	Mean	Std dev
Conflict-Related Eventsa
Gun battles (no. per month)	(0–4)	0.16	0.59
Political events	(0–3)	0.28	0.53
Ceasefires	(0,1)	0.16	0.37
Sample Used to Analyze International Migration, Ages 15–59 in 1997 (N = 4,003) Outcome: Migration
Migrated during study period	(0,1)	0.08	0.27
Controls: Individual characteristics
Age	(15–59)	32.77	12.34
Gender (female)	(0,1)	0.54	0.50
Ever migrated (before 1997)	(0,1)	0.23	0.42
Educational attainment (years completed)	(0-16)	4.31	4.36
School enrollment	(0,1)	0.31	0.73
Nonfamily work	(0,1)	0.44	0.50
Farmland owned (acres)	(0–17)	2.05	2.42
Distance to Narayanghat	(0–18)	8.63	4.09
Marital Status
Never married	(0,1)	0.21	0.41
Married, living with spouse	(0,1)	0.61	0.49
Married, not living with spouse	(0,1)	0.13	0.34
Divorced, separated, widowed	(0,1)	0.04	0.20
Ethnicity
Brahmin-Chhetri	(0,1)	0.47	0.50
Dalit	(0,1)	0.10	0.30
Hill indigenous	(0,1)	0.15	0.36
Terai indigenous	(0,1)	0.20	0.40
Newar	(0,1)	0.06	0.24
Sample Used to Analyze Marriage: Unmarried Individuals, Ages 15–24 in 1997 (N = 952)
Outcome: Marriage
Married during study period	(0,1)	0.73	0.44
Controls: Individual characteristics
Community services (in adult community)	(0–5)	2.50	1.26
Parents’ characteristics
Age at marriage	(6–36)	18.87	4.63
Number of children ever born	(0–13)	5.40	2.18
Education	(0–16)	3.42	4.30
Sample Used to Analyze Contraception: Married Individuals, Ages 15–44 in 1997 (N = 986)
Outcome: Contraception
Started using contraception during study period	(0,1)	0.70	0.46
Controls: Individual characteristics
Number of children ever born	(0–10)	2.19	2.08
Wage work experience	(0,1)	0.46	0.50

^aThe unit of measure for conflict related events is months. The unit of measure for all other characteristics is persons.