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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2022 Mar 30;48(3):767–793. doi: 10.1111/padr.12482

TABLE 1.

Descriptive statistics, by region

Variable East and Southern Africa West and Central Africa South America Central America and the Caribbean Southeast Asia
Outcome Mean SD Min Max Mean SD Min Max Mean SD Min Max Mean SD Min Max Mean SD Min Max
Migrant = yes 0.275 - 0 1 0.270 - 0 1 0.224 - 0 1 0.265 - 0 1 0.166 - 0 1
Climate anomalies, ages −1 to 4
Temperature −0.742 0.354 −1.964 0.863 −0.823 0.608 −2.342 1.155 −0.646 0.684 −2.912 2.454 −0.733 0.606 −2.572 0.851 −0.779 0.548 −2.346 1.384
Rainfall 0.344 0.910 −2.393 3.013 0.341 0.934 −1.519 2.800 −0.096 0.968 −3.073 3.102 0.028 1.007 −2.531 3.059 −0.029 1.007 −2.625 2.789
Controls
Age 33.8 2.9 30 39 33.6 2.9 30 39 34.0 2.8 30 39 34.1 2.8 30 39 33.6 2.9 30 39
Sex = female 0.512 - 0 1 0.534 - 0 1 0.513 - 0 1 0.519 - 0 1 0.502 - 0 1
Primary school = yes 0.555 - 0 1 0.363 - 0 1 0.623 - 0 1 0.731 - 0 1 0.716 - 0 1
Decade
1980–89 0.141 - 0 1 0.173 - 0 1 0.046 - 0 1 0.034 - 0 1 0.118 - 0 1
1990–99 0.205 - 0 1 0.168 - 0 1 0.295 - 0 1 0.172 - 0 1 0.202 - 0 1
2000–09 0.454 - 0 1 0.472 - 0 1 0.365 - 0 1 0.515 - 0 1 0.372 - 0 1
2010–12 0.201 - 0 1 0.187 - 0 1 0.295 - 0 1 0.279 - 0 1 0.308 - 0 1
N (unweighted) 3,210,234 1,630,755 7,095,627 752,732 7,787,325
N (weighted) 34,187,834 16,307,550 105,779,389 7,633,004 123,318,625