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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 17.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Environ. 2021 Jun 17;43(2):181–208. doi: 10.1007/s11111-021-00385-7

Table 2.

Household demographic characteristics at each survey wave

Mean (standard deviation)
Baseline (2010) 36 month follow-up (2013) 48 month follow-up (2014) 84 month follow-up (2017)

Number of departing members 1 0.43 0.70 1.12
(1.11) (1.33) (1.61)
Number of local movers 0.24 0.35 0.48
(0.80) (0.99) (1.01)
Number of local movers within the same village 0.05 0.11 0.15
(0.33) (0.59) (0.48)
Number of local movers to nearby village 0.19 0.24 0.34
(0.71) (0.78) (0.85)
Number of long-distance movers (migrants) 0.14 0.23 0.37
(0.60) (0.74) (0.93)
Number of deaths 0.03 0.11 0.26
(0.17) (0.38) (0.57)
Number of male departing members 0.21 0.36 0.58
(0.64) (0.82) (1.01)
Number of female departing members 0.22 0.35 0.53
(0.63) (0.75) (0.91)
Number of other departing members2 0.29 0.47 0.74
(0.91) (1.08) (1.18)
Number of new members 3 0.07 0.27 0.58
(0.30) (0.57) (0.86)
Number of return migrants 0.005 0.07 0.09
(0.07) (0.31) (0.31)
Number of new births 0.05 0.14 0.38
(0.21) (0.37) (0.57)
Number of other new members4 0.02 0.06 0.11
(0.19) (0.32) (0.53)
Number of members unchanged since the last wave5 5.66 6.14 6.01 5.94
(2.04) (2.19) (2.12) (2.18)
Presence of remittances 0.01 0.02 0.03
(0.08) (0.14) (0.17)
Household head age 29.70 32.91 33.93 36.60
(9.49) (9.75) (9.92) (9.56)

Notes:

1

The number of departing members in household counts all leaving people since the baseline. It was decomposed into local movers, long-distance movers (migrants), and deaths. Discrepancies between the number of departing members and the sum of movers and deaths in year 2013 and 2014 are due to different response rates in the corresponding survey questions.

2

The number of other departing members counts all leaving people except long-distance movers (migrants).

3

The number of new members in household are measured between the current wave and one lagged wave.

4

The number of other new members counts all new entering people except new births and return migrants.

5

In the baseline, the number of ‘same members since the last wave’ measures household size.