Table 2.

Descriptive analysis of provincial variables

Variables	n	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Standard deviation
Percentage of population aged five and over with no formal schooling	63	2.0	33.2	7.1	7.2
Percentage of population who had attained a minimum of college level education	63	1.1	13.2	3.1	2.2
Percentage of women aged 15–49 who had a third child	63	7.2	39.2	17.1	8.2
Total fertility rate	63	1.45	3.45	2.16	0.38
Income inequality (Q5/Q1)	63	5.06	9.18	6.81	0.93
Provincial poverty rate	63	0.5	58.2	18.8	11.4