Education and allocation of skills in Tunisia: evidence from an education reform

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 1 Descriptive statistics

	Mean cns	SD cns	Mean lfs	SD lfs
Grades completed	7.562	5	7.867	5
Wealth index	0.150	2	0.773	2
Employed	0.787		0.830
Education
None	0.141		0.116
Primary	0.381		0.405
Secondary	0.345		0.341
College	0.134		0.139
Employment sector
Public admin	0.190		0.172
Public company	0.032		0.034
Private Tunisian company	0.139		0.124
Multinat	0.023		0.031
Shop	0.144		0.168
Home	0.007		0.005
Ambulant	0.070		0.062
Agricultural site	0.106		0.123
Construction building	0.126		0.139
Construction other	0.006		0.006
Other places	0.013		0.011
None	0.143		0.124
Occupation
Management	0.088		0.133
Scientist	0.053		0.057
Technician	0.061		0.054
Clerk	0.045		0.038
Vendor	0.096		0.089
Farmer	0.074		0.101
Craftsman	0.128		0.121
Machine Operator	0.087		0.083
Unskilled Worker	0.225		0.168
None	0.143		0.156

Males born between 1945 and 1980. Cns refers to the census data and lfs to the labor force survey. Employment sector refers to the response to a question about place of work.