Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the Chitwan Valley Family Study sample

Measure		Range	Mean/Median	Std dev
Unit of measure = month	N=104
Conflict
Gun battles		(0–4)	0.19 / 0	0.62
Unit of measure = community	N=151
Community organizations in 1997
Market within 5 minutes walk		(0,1)	0.50	0.50
Cooperative within 10 minutes walk		(0,1)	0.09	0.29
Mill within 5 minutes walk		(0,1)	0.42	0.49
Health centre within 10 minutes walk		(0,1)	0.42	0.49
Police post within 10 minutes walk		(0,1)	0.07	0.25
Unit of measure = person	N=3353
Individual characteristics in 1997
Sex (female)		(0,1)	0.53	0.50
Age		(18–62)	35.26	11.53
Marital status
Never married		(0,1)	0.12	0.32
Married, living with spouse		(0,1)	0.68	0.47
Married, not living with spouse		(0,1)	0.15	0.36
Divorced, separated, widowed		(0,1)	0.05	0.21
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)	0.21	0.41
Newar		(0,1)	0.06	0.24
Migration experience
Ever migrated during study period		(0,1)	0.63	0.48
Ever migrated before 1997		(0,1)	0.26	0.44
Number of migrations since 1997		(0–18)	1.39	2.12
Months away on last migration		(0–107)	5.33	12.16
Months back since last migration		(0–107)	65.49	44.16
Number of children		(0–16)	3.17	2.53
Educational attainment		(0–16)	4.01	4.48
Wage or salary job		(0,1)	0.45	0.50
Amount of land owned (acres)		(0–17)	2.06	2.44
Distance to Narayanghat		(0–18)	8.68	4.05