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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 21.
Published in final edited form as: World Dev. 2019 Oct 25;126:104704. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104704

Table 2:

Descriptive Statistics of Working Age Population

Ethiopia
Malawi
Tanzania
Uganda
Pooled
Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural
Migration rates
 more than 1 month 0.03 0.09 0.09 0.07 0.16 0.12 0.13 0.12 0.12 0.11
  1–6 months 0.03 0.08 0.06 0.05 0.09 0.07 0.04 0.04 0.06 0.07
  7–12 months 0.00 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.06 0.05 0.09 0.08 0.05 0.04
Other occupational participation rates
 Agricultural self-employed 0.90 0.88 0.52 0.85 0.31 0.82 0.53 0.82 0.51 0.85
 Agricultural wage 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.03 0.14 0.05 0.13 0.03 0.08
 Non-agricultural employment 0.23 0.15 0.41 0.21 0.42 0.22 0.41 0.32 0.37 0.21
 School 0.13 0.10 0.15 0.12 0.17 0.13 0.26 0.22 0.18 0.13
Not employed 0.05 0.07 0.16 0.05 0.21 0.05 0.07 0.04 0.14 0.06
Climate
 Temperature z-score 0.29
(0.73)
−0.12
(0.87)
0.88
(0.59)
0.82
(0.59)
0.44
(1.17)
0.58
(1.04)
0.83
(0.68)
0.75
(0.65)
0.52
(0.97)
0.35
(0.99)
 Rainfall z-score 0.22
(0.67)
0.21
(0.67)
−0.74
(0.90)
−0.76
(1.00)
−0.02
(0.94)
−0.39
(0.84)
−0.26
(0.75)
−0.14
(0.80)
−0.07
(0.88)
−0.15
(0.84)
Other
 Age 15–34 0.62 0.59 0.68 0.65 0.68 0.65 0.58 0.58 0.65 0.62
 Female 0.50 0.51 0.50 0.52 0.53 0.51 0.51 0.53 0.52 0.52
Observations 1,338 10,934 2,536 5,828 7,587 15,186 3,780 8,088 15,241 40,036

Note: Means (proportions for binary variables) with standard deviations in parentheses. Occupational variables refer to whether the individual engaged in the activity in the previous 12 months except school, which refers to current school year. Observations are person-years aged 15–65. Sample and attrition weights applied.