Table 3 Household demographic characteristics by region of residence

Household head characteristics

Age, years

50.73

48.47

48.14

51.08

46.16

50.92

HH head is female (indicator)

0.14

0.19

0.17

0.13

0.32

0.20

Married (indicator)

0.82

0.77

0.82

0.83

0.66

0.78

Education

11.66

11.27

10.66

10.59

12.25

10.42

Worked last 14 days (indicator)

0.76

0.68

0.72

0.65

0.61

0.64

In the workforce (indicator)

0.77

0.72

0.73

0.66

0.66

0.65

Not employed last 14 days (indicator)

0.22

0.27

0.27

0.34

0.32

0.31

Total monthly earnings (all types), somoni

26.46

31.17

23.73

32.48

50.92

22.33

Monthly wages (monetary), somoni

25.83

28.40

22.80

31.76

49.92

21.39

Migrated abr for 3+ months since 1998

0.04

0.09

0.07

0.03

0.10

0.17

Mean number of months spent abroad

5.64

3.17

2.15

0.62

3.13

10.61

Household characteristics

Household size

6.33

5.80

7.01

7.10

4.59

7.63

Dependents (under 16 & 66+)/(Adults 16-65)

0.91

0.87

1.22

1.21

0.89

1.08

N of children ages 0-6

0.90

0.96

1.35

1.40

0.81

1.40

N of children ages 7-15

1.29

1.22

1.88

1.73

1.03

1.82

N of elderly 66 and above

0.30

0.23

0.20

0.30

0.16

0.31

Ln (non-wage income)

1.41

0.92

0.82

1.05

0.84

1.11

Adults age 16-65 in a household

3.83

3.39

3.58

3.67

2.59

4.10

N currently at home migrants

0.24

0.24

0.19

0.06

0.19

0.54

has a migrant who was abr for 3+ months since 1998

0.15

0.18

0.14

0.05

0.15

0.39

Community characteristics

SR: all men to women in 1989

1.04

0.97

0.99

0.98

0.96

1.12

SR: all men to women in 2000

1.02

1.00

1.00

0.98

1.03

1.01

SR: men to women age 15-64 in 1989

1.04

0.96

0.98

0.96

1.00

1.12

SR: men to women age 15-64 in 2000

1.02

0.99

0.99

0.94

1.03

1.01

Proportion of households with migrants in psu

0.15

0.18

0.14

0.05

0.15

0.39

N

480

1260

740

320

660

700