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. 2021 Jan 14;34(2):691–738. doi: 10.1007/s00148-020-00818-x

Table 1.

Summary statistics

Variable Value N
Socio-demographics
Non-White 0.15 1006
Male 0.44 1006
New York-California 0.54 1006
Elderly 0.39 1006
Health
Pre-existing condition 0.45 1006
Housing
Urban 0.41 1006
Home w/o open air access 0.15 1006
Elderly exposure 0.46 1006
Work arrangements and losses
Working 0.70 990
Full-time | working 0.54 701
Part-time | working 0.14 701
Can work from home | working 0.82 701
Stopped working | working 0.38 701
Tele-working | working 0.34 701
Still working | working 0.20 701
Mean income quintile 3.11 1006
Mean lost HH. income ($1000) 0.77 475
Beliefs and perceptions
Mean belief social distancing effectiveness {1–5} 3.99 1006
Mean local infection rate 0.24 971
Benefits from pandemic 0.84 1006
Outcomes
Changed behavior 0.88 1006
Increased SD 0.54 824
Increased hand washing-mask wearing 0.71 933
N 1006

Summary statistics for characteristics of individuals for the entire US sample. The first column lists the probability that a randomly drawn individual has the listed characteristic or the mean value of the variable from the sample. The exceptions are full-time, part-time, work from home, stopped working, tele-working, and still working, which were computed among the sample of respondents that were observed working. The second column lists the total number of observations for which that variable had a non-missing value