Table 8.

Normal distribution test

Variables	Obs.	Skewness	Kurtosis	Shapiro-Wilk test		Shapiro-Francia test
				Statistics	Sig.	Statistics	Sig.
lnPHCE	399	1.547	4.984	0.973	0.000***	0.975	0.000***
lnIndus	399	10.310	110.356	0.788	0.000***	0.785	0.000***
lnoop	399	1.849	6.514	0.987	0.002***	0.989	0.007**
lnpop	399	3.236	13.144	0.901	0.000***	0.903	0.000***
lngdp	399	1.161	3.8280	0.970	0.000***	0.973	0.000***
lnagri	399	4.579	25.798	0.961	0.000***	0.963	0.000***
lntech	399	7.798	67.820	0.976	0.000***	0.977	0.000

*** signify at 1 percent level of significance