Table 8 Summary statistics for the additional explanatory variables

From: Health shocks and child time allocation decisions by households: evidence from Ethiopia

	2006 Survey Round		2009 Survey Round
	mean	std. dev.	mean	std. dev.
Child characteristics
Child education	1.35	1.92	2.77	2.80
Child age	8.24	3.34	11.16	3.34
Female	0.53	0.50	0.53	0.50
Parental characteristics
Mother’s education	2.11	3.58	2.27	3.51
Biological mother	0.86	0.35	0.81	0.39
Mother’s age	34.9	8.5	37.7	8.4
Father’s education	2.77	4.16	2.95	4.10
Biological father	0.69	0.46	0.62	0.49
Father’s age	43.9	10.9	46.6	10.9
Household characteristics
Mother’s power	0.46	0.28	0.46	0.28
Male head	0.78	0.41	0.77	0.42
Household size	6.25	2.06	6.25	2.05
Wealth index	0.29	0.17	0.34	0.17
Owns animal	0.65	0.48	0.71	0.45
Land size	0.70	1.19	0.98	7.24
Member of social group	0.74	0.44	0.73	0.44
Community characteristics
Urban	0.40	0.49	0.41	0.49
Microfinance	0.71	0.45	0.72	0.45
Health centre	0.86	0.34	0.86	0.35
Drought events	0.40	0.49	0.40	0.49
Flood events	0.36	0.48	0.56	0.50
Observations	2269		2269

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