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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2018 Jul 18;44(3):455–488. doi: 10.1111/padr.12158

Table 1.

Means and standard deviations of main analysis variables, by Census year

Pooled 2000 2010
Mean (S.D.) Mean (S.D.) Mean (S.D.)
HH sent migrant abroad during 5 years prior to Census (%) 6.3 (24.4) 8.2 (27.4) 5.3 (22.4)
Maximum temperature, baseline (°C) 27.4 (3.1) 27.4 (3.2) 27.4 (3.1)
Temperature change during retrospective window (°C) 0.76 (0.27) 0.69 (0.31) 0.80 (0.24)
% months in window where temperature was... SDs above baseline
  1 – 2 standard deviations 28.9 (7.9) 26.0 (8.3) 30.5 (7.1)
   2+ standard deviations 7.8 (5.7) 8.1 (4.5) 7.6 (6.3)
Rainfall, baseline (mm/yr) 92.6 (49.0) 88.8 (47.2) 94.8 (49.8)
Precipitation change during retrospective window (mm/yr) 1.4 (51.6) −1.7 (49.7) 3.1 (52.3)
% months in window where precipitation was… SDs below baseline
  1 – 2 standard deviations 10.7 (7.0) 12.8 (6.3) 9.5 (7.2)
   2+ standard deviations 0.5 (1.1) 0.7 (1.3) 0.4 (0.9)
Marginalization index (z-score) 0.15 (1.1) −0.06 (1.0) 0.28 (1.1)
Economic diversity index (0–1) 0.67 (0.19) 0.66 (0.18) 0.67 (0.19)
International migration intensity index (z-score) −0.02 (1.0) 0.05 (1.0) −0.06 (1.0)
Municipal land classified as urban (%) 0.9 (4.06) 1.0 (4.05) 0.8 (4.07)
Municipal farmland that is irrigated (%) 18.3 (26.6) 20.6 (27.9) 17.0 (25.7)
Area of farmland planted with corn (sqm / 10 ha) 1.4 (1.5) 1.3 (1.4) 1.4 (1.5)
Area of farmland planted with wheat (sqm / 10 ha) 0.1 (0.26) 0.1 (0.27) 0.1 (0.25)
Area of farmland planted with soybeans (sqm / 10 ha) 0.1 (0.40) 0.1 (0.42) 0.0 (0.39)
2,500 – 14,999 inhab. in locality (REF = less than 2,500) 0.3 (0.47) 0.3 (0.46) 0.3 (0.47)
State GDP growth, window relative to prior 5 years (%) 3.08 (1.6) 2.10 (1.7) 3.64 (1.3)
HH members working in primary sector activities (%) 20.6 (27.4) 21.4 (28.1) 20.2 (27.0)
HH members employed (%) 33.3 (26.3) 32.6 (25.5) 33.6 (26.8)
Asset index (z-score) 0.0 (0.63) −0.1 (0.63) 0.1 (0.61)
HH is owned by one of its members 0.9 (0.34) 0.8 (0.36) 0.9 (0.33)
Schooling of HH head (years) 4.8 (4.1) 4.5 (3.9) 5.0 (4.2)
HH income (in 1,000s MXN) 2.9 (10.0) 2.0 (12.3) 3.3 (8.5)
Age of HH head (years) 47.7 (17.0) 45.9 (16.6) 48.8 (17.1)
Children under 5 in HH (No.) 0.4 (0.67) 0.5 (0.73) 0.3 (0.63)

    N (households) 305,290 110,343 194,947

Source: see Appendix I for specific variable sources.