Table 3.
Summary Statistics.
| Variable | 1915–1917 Average |
St.Dev. | 1918 Average |
St.Dev. | Post-1918 Average |
St. Dev. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths | 9296 | 4925 | 14,337 | 6976 | 8934 | 5120 |
| Wages: | ||||||
| Agriculture | 1.95 | 0.44 | 1.72 | 0.61 | 2.63 | 0.96 |
| Builder | 2.76 | 0.59 | 2.64 | 0.51 | 3.87 | 1.00 |
| Stone-cutter | 3.00 | 0.67 | 2.90 | 0.57 | 4.04 | 1.02 |
| Carpenter | 2.79 | 0.59 | 2.61 | 0.66 | 3.80 | 0.98 |
| Blacksmith | 2.85 | 0.72 | 2.58 | 0.61 | 3.76 | 0.94 |
| Metal | 2.85 | 1.22 | 2.68 | 1.10 | 3.76 | 1.66 |
| Painter | 2.69 | 0.64 | 2.54 | 0.57 | 3.62 | 1.03 |
| Tailor | 2.62 | 0.82 | 2.39 | 0.84 | 3.27 | 1.12 |
| Shoemaker | 2.40 | 0.63 | 2.24 | 0.64 | 3.16 | 0.95 |
| Dividends: | 403 | 1298 | 499 | 1605 | 464 | 1430 |
| Real estate prices: | ||||||
| Urban housing | 4797 | 7426 | 7150 | 12,152 | 9061 | 16,773 |
| Land prices | 1449 | 1397 | 1911 | 1968 | 2664 | 3011 |
Notes: Death is number of deaths for province and year from INE Historical Database. Wages are average real wages for province and data from Rosés and Sánchez-Alonso (2004). Real dividends are thousands of pesetas from the Estad́ıstica de Utilidades, deflacted by provincial cost-of-living index. Real Estate prices are the ratio of value of all transactions (in pesetas) over the number of transactions, deflacted by provincial cost-of-living index. Data obtained from Carmona and Rośes, 2012, Carmona et al., 2017, and Carmona, Rosés and Simpson (2019). All post-1918 are 1919–1930, except for dividends which the series stops in 1919.