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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2015 Dec 2;148:110–122. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.028

Table 2.

Measures of famine severity and instrumental variables during the 1959–1961 Chinese famine.

Mean SD Min Max N
Provincial Level
  EDR (unit: 0.1%) 6.4 6.9 0.1 28.6 27
  CSSI (unit: 1%) 37.1 12.6 19.0 63.0 27
Prefecture Level
  CSSI (unit: 1%) 40.8 13.8 9.9 79.1 119
  N of exaggerations 3.7 6.1 0.0 41.0 119
  N of counties exaggerating grain yields 1.8 2.1 0.0 14.0 119

Note: EDR = excess death rate and is from Lin and Yang (2000); CSSI = cohort size shrinkage index and is from the 1% sample of China’s 1990 population census.