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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Jobs and kids: female employment and fertility in China

Variables

Mean1

Employment status2

Not employed

Employed

Sample size

N = 1514

N = 841

Fertility variables

  Preferred number of children

1.768

(0.816)

1.378

(0.695)

  Actual number of children

1.650

(0.803)

1.202

(0.632)

Instrumental variables3

  A bus stop in the village or neighborhood

0.602

 

0.747

 

Other explanatory variables

  Household annual income (RMB)

18408.270

(26224.350)

31250.620

(32105.140)

  Ethnic minority (wife and/or husband)

0.156

 

0.102

 

  Age

40.546

(7.679)

38.960

(7.310)

  Married

0.982

 

0.967

 

  The first child is a son

0.463

 

0.477

 

  Wife has siblings

0.967

 

0.956

 

  Husband has siblings

0.930

 

0.888

 

  Smoking

0.024

 

0.004

 

  Drinking alcohol

0.069

 

0.124

 

  Health insurance

0.452

 

0.591

 

  Education

   Less than primary school

0.203

 

0.050

 

   Primary school

0.235

 

0.096

 

   Lower middle school

0.409

 

0.380

 

   Upper middle school

0.126

 

0.168

 

   Technical school

0.023

 

0.164

 

   College

0.003

 

0.141

 

  Occupation

   Worker

N/A

 

0.585

 

   Professional

N/A

 

0.166

 

   Manager

N/A

 

0.040

 

   Staff

N/A

 

0.130

 

   Other occupations

N/A

 

0.078

 

  Health status

   Excellent

0.119

 

0.180

 

   Good

0.542

 

0.522

 

   Fair

0.283

 

0.282

 

   Poor

0.057

 

0.017

 

  Village or neighborhood population (in 1000)

3.188

(4.106)

5.540

(8.125)

  Han nationality allowed to have two children if the first child is female

0.469

 

0.233

 

  Receiving a subsidy if having one child

0.668

 

0.705

 

  Urban

0.050

 

0.439

 

  Province

   Heilongjiang

0.147

 

0.112

 

   Liaoning

0.116

 

0.136

 

   Jiangsu

0.075

 

0.149

 

   Shandong

0.079

 

0.131

 

   Henan

0.143

 

0.069

 

   Hubei

0.104

 

0.102

 

   Hunan

0.131

 

0.067

 

   Guangxi

0.101

 

0.128

 

   Guizhou

0.106

 

0.107

 
  1. Data source: China Health and Nutrition Survey 2006.
  2. N/A not applicable.
  3. 1 Standard deviations are reported in parentheses for continuous variables.
  4. 2 Employment status is defined by whether an individual has a job off the farm.
  5. 3 Instrumental variables are from China Health and Nutrition Survey Community Questionnaire 2006.