Table 1.
Summary statistics of variables included in the analysis of the impact of climate change on international migration from Burkina Faso and Senegal
| Unit | Min | Max | SD | Sample mean |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF | SN | |||||
| Outcome variable | ||||||
| Migrant HH | 1|0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.10 | 0.11 |
| Household controls | ||||||
| Head married | 1|0 | 0 | 1 | 0.26 | 0.90 | 0.99 |
| Muslim | 1|0 | 0 | 1 | 0.46 | 0.60 | 0.96 |
| Age of head | years | 15 | 98 | 15.92 | 42.97 | 49.56 |
| Primary education | % | 0 | 100 | 14.16 | 4.45 | 5.98 |
| Child dep. ratio | % | 0 | 90 | 20.92 | 39.32 | 43.56 |
| Retiree dep. ratio | % | 0 | 100 | 12.71 | 4.60 | 4.60 |
| Employed in HH | % | 0 | 100 | 26.11 | 50.59 | 35.31 |
| Persons in HH | count | 1 | 99 | 5.21 | 6.32 | 10.32 |
| Home owner | 1|0 | 0 | 1 | 0.27 | 0.93 | 0.91 |
| Wealth index | count | 0 | 9 | 1.64 | 0.88 | 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 |
| Baseline climate wet | 1|0 | 0 | 1 | 0.50 | 0.49 | 0.52 |
| Climate measures | ||||||
| Heat wave | % | 19.44 | 55.56 | 8.39 | 34.2 | 39.11 |
| Cold snap | % | 0 | 18.06 | 3.60 | 2.07 | 3.32 |
| Drought | % | 0 | 13.89 | 3.50 | 6.20 | 5.60 |
| Exces precip | % | 5.56 | 16.67 | 2.28 | 10.19 | 9.36 |
| Climate impact index | % | 9.72 | 34.03 | 5.14 | 20.2 | 22.36 |
| Sample size | ||||||
| Households | count | 133686 | 57052 | |||
| Provinces/departments | count | 45 | 31 | |||
Notes: min, max, and SD computed acro ss samples; Source: data obtained via Terra Populus; BF = Burkina Faso (2006 census), SN = Senegal (2002 census).