Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru

Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan

doi:10.1186/s40175-016-0069-3

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 4 Descriptive statistics

From: Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru

	Total		Not at risk		At risk		t test
	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	p value
Child is male	0.53	0.500	0.40	0.491	0.63	0.483	0.000
Age in R4	18.41	0.582	18.36	0.540	18.46	0.610	0.052
Mother’s education - primary school or none	0.33	0.472	0.32	0.468	0.34	0.476	0.600
Mother’s education - secondary school	0.42	0.493	0.40	0.490	0.43	0.496	0.404
Mother’s education - higher education	0.16	0.365	0.19	0.391	0.14	0.343	0.114
Descriptives, age 15
Type site - rural, age 15	0.22	0.418	0.24	0.431	0.21	0.407	0.351
Migrated between 15 and 19	0.08	0.268	0.07	0.254	0.08	0.278	0.535
First tercile of wealth	0.32	0.469	0.30	0.461	0.34	0.475	0.392
Second tercile of wealth	0.34	0.473	0.35	0.477	0.33	0.471	0.711
Third tercile of wealth	0.34	0.474	0.35	0.478	0.33	0.471	0.634
Single parent, age 15	0.26	0.440	0.21	0.406	0.30	0.461	0.016
Child has older siblings	0.35	0.478	0.35	0.478	0.35	0.478	0.974
Number of siblings	1.92	1.281	1.98	1.303	1.87	1.264	0.367
Self-efficacy	0.02	0.521	0.08	0.525	−0.03	0.514	0.015
Self-esteem	0.00	0.594	0.04	0.601	−0.02	0.589	0.229
Child aspirations	0.92	0.26	0.95	0.220	0.90	0.294	0.064
Mother’s aspirations	0.93	0.247	0.95	0.210	0.92	0.273	0.125
Child is enrolled	0.94	0.232	0.96	0.189	0.93	0.261	0.085
PPVT (standardized)	−0.02	1.009	0.03	1.015	−0.06	1.005	0.337
Math (standardized)	−0.01	0.998	0.09	1.062	−0.08	0.940	0.069
Observations	490		217		273
Descriptives, age 12
Migrated between age 7 and 15	0.13	0.338	0.12	0.323	0.14	0.351	0.393
Self-efficacy	0.01	0.515	0.04	0.468	−0.02	0.549	0.192
Self-esteem	0.04	0.666	0.07	0.641	0.01	0.686	0.264
Child aspirations	0.92	0.272	0.94	0.240	0.90	0.294	0.151
Mother’s aspirations	0.95	0.213	0.95	0.223	0.96	0.206	0.672
Raven (standardized)	0.02	1.009	0.05	1.053	−0.01	0.975	0.512
Observations	524		230		294

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