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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Environ. 2016 Jun 11;38(2):164–184. doi: 10.1007/s11111-016-0260-0

Table 1. Descriptive statistics of variables employed in the analysis of the relationship between climate, migration, and the local food security context in Burkina Faso and Senegal.

Unit Min Max SD Sample mean

BF SN
Outcome variable
 Migrant HH 1|0 0 1 0.30 0.10 0.11
Household controls
 Head married 1|0 0 1 0.26 0.91 0.99
 Muslim 1|0 0 1 0.46 0.60 0.96
 Age of head years 15 98 15.76 42.41 49.56
 Primary education % 0 100 13.55 4.01 5.98
 Child dep. ratio % 0 90 21.18 41.55 43.56
 Retiree dep. ratio % 0 100 12.55 4.41 4.60
 Employed in HH % 0 100 26.73 54.16 35.31
 Persons in HH count 1 99 5.06 6.35 10.32
 Home owner 1|0 0 1 0.27 0.93 0.91
 Wealth index count 0 9 1.60 0.86 2.36
Province/department controls
 Network density % 0.37 27.95 6.89 12.05 4.38
 Urban land % 0 4.68 0.67 0.16 0.48
 Cotton/groundnuts sqm/100ha 0 42.71 6.40 0.72 6.70
 Baseline climate hot 1|0 0 1 0.50 0.49 0.55
Food security measures
 Child stunting z-score 0.17 3.2 0.55 1.62 0.89
 Child wasting z-score -0.34 1.88 0.38 0.88 0.63
Climate measures
 Heat wave % 19.44 55.56 8.39 34.20 39.11
 Cold snap % 0 18.06 3.60 2.07 3.32
 Drought % 0 13.89 3.50 6.20 5.60
 Excess precip % 5.56 16.67 2.28 10.19 9.36
 Climate impact index % 9.72 34.03 5.14 20.20 22.36
Sample size
 Households count 164884 57052
 Provinces/departments count 45 31

Note: BF=Burkina Faso, SN=Senegal; Values for Min, Max, and SD refer to the complete sample.