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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Jul 31;127:63–73. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.056

Table 1.

Summary Statistics

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Sample Income Health Life
dissatisfaction
Obesity Smoke Drink
Panel A: Dependent variable
Mean 2.23 0.18 0.21 0.11 0.38 0.08
Standard deviation (1.05) (0.38) (0.41) (0.31) (0.49) (0.27)
Interquartile range across
countries
0.18 0.12 0.21 0.11 0.08 0.06
Panel B: Years of education
Mean 12.10 12.32 12.53 12.24 12.48 12.64
Standard deviation (4.25) (4.09) (4.10) (4.17) (4.04) (4.03)
Interquartile range across
countries
1.91 2.09 2.08 1.75 2.32 2.28
Panel C: Unemployment rates
Mean 0.058 0.070 0.080 0.070 0.076 0.075
Standard deviation (0.042) (0.045) (0.050) (0.045) (0.048) (0.045)
Standard deviation of residual UR (0.039) (0.040) (0.045) (0.041) (0.043) (0.040)
Observations 50,590 28,411 87,407 17,765 47,818 19,632

Years of Eurobarometer 1997–2003 2002, 2006 2005, 2006,
2009, 2011,
2012
2003, 2005 2002, 2005,
2006, 2009,
2011, 2012
2006, 2009
Eurobarometer data source 47.2, 49.0,
52.1, 53.0,
55.0, 56.1,
57.0, 58.2 59.0
58.2, 64.3,
66.2
63.4, 64.2,
66.3, 71.2,
76.3, 77.3,
77.4, 78.1
59.0, 64.3 58.2, 64.1,
66.2, 72.3,
77.1
66.2, 72.3

Note: Standard deviations in parentheses. The residual unemployment rates are from regressing unemployment rates when graduating on indicators for gender, marital status, graduation cohorts, years since graduation, UR sources, countries, survey years, country interacting with survey years and linear time trends for specific country.