Social-family network and self-employment: evidence from temporary rural–urban migrants in China

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 1 Descriptive statistics

VARIABLES	Mean	Std. Dev.
Self-employed	0.195	0.397
Number of friends	16.19	24.37
Number of relatives	12.52	12.38
Number of friends & relatives	28.71	32.30
Total number of people greeted	28.52	30.92
People greeted who are living in urban areas	13.43	24.53
Male	0.689	0.463
Age	30.36	10.21
Years of schooling	9.290	2.379
Married	0.534	0.499
Number of children	0.758	0.882
Years since first migrated out of rural area	7.640	6.451
Log distance from home province when first migrated out of rural area	3.146	3.428
Whether stayed within home province when first migrated out of rural area	0.482	0.500

The statistics in the table are based on the sample that includes all household heads aged between 16 and 70 and excludes all household heads with a number of total contacts above the 99^th percentile (larger than 200). There are a total of 4,442 observations in this sample.