Table 5.

Individual Status, Funeral Spending and Borrowing

	Dependent variable:
	Funeral spending (Rand)		=1 if borrowed money for funeral
Female	–544.93 (106.04)	–611.98 (107.31)	–0.025 (0.014)	–0.036 (0.015)
Relationship of deceased to current head was ‘other’	–1004.58 (110.63)	–756.73 (112.97)	–0.036 (0.016)	–0.037 (0.017)
Household characteristics?	No	Yes	No	Yes
Number of observations	3751	3324	3615	3209

Note. OLS regressions with robust standard errors in parentheses. Unobservables are clustered at the homestead level. All regressions include year of death indicators, a complete set of age indicators by 10-year age categories and an indicator that age at death was missing (5 cases). Omitted category for relationship of the deceased to current head of household includes parents, spouse and children. ‘Other’ relationships are: siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, sons- or daughters-in-law, other family and individuals not related to the current head of household. Household characteristics in columns 2 and 4 are household size, household asset holdings and the maximum number of years of education in the household (all measured in 2001).