Table 3.

Mean differences in characteristics between mobile Internet users and non-users

Variable	Users	Non-users	Difference	t-statistic
Age	45.50 (0.39)	61.25 (0.58)	− 15.75***	− 23.13
Gender	0.74 (0.02)	0.59 (0.03)	0.14***	4.22
Education	7.90 (0.13)	4.66 (0.21)	3.24***	13.87
Risk aversion	0.81 (0.02)	0.92 (0.02)	− 0.11***	− 4.19
Household size	4.77 (0.07)	4.62 (0.11)	0.15	1.22
Access to credit	0.92 (0.01)	0.87 (0.02)	0.05**	2.30
Distance to market	5.28 (0.21)	3.20 (0.18)	2.09***	6.48
Cooperative membership	0.19 (0.02)	0.16 (0.02)	0.03	1.02
Sichuan	0.18 (0.02)	0.65 (0.03)	− 0.47***	− 15.21
Henan	0.53 (0.02)	0.05 (0.01)	0.48***	15.17
Fujian	0.29 (0.02)	0.30 (0.03)	− 0.01	− 0.33
Home delivery service	0.20 (0.02)	0.18 (0.02)	0.03	0.85
Friend’s adoption of online shopping	0.76 (0.02)	0.35 (0.03)	0.41***	12.61

Standard errors are in parentheses, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01