Association of Child Maltreatment with South African Adults’ Wages: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study

Health Economics Review

Table 3 Individual and household characteristics (N = 2644)

Variable	Symbol	Mean (sample)	Mean (weighted)	Standard deviation	Wave
Individual Characteristics
Male	male	0.45	0.49	0.50	Wave 5
African	african	0.46	0.29	0.50	Wave 5
Colored	colored	0.50	0.56	0.50	Wave 5
Age	age	24.47	24.67	2.58	Wave 5
Age square	age_sqr	605.42	615.11	127.54	Wave 5
College degree	coll	0.07	0.12	0.25	Wave 5
College degree above	coll_ab	0.02	0.02	0.13	Wave 5
Married	marr	0.14	0.16	0.35	Wave 5
Separated	sepa	0.02	0.02	0.13	Wave 5
In school	school	0.09	0.11	0.28	Wave 5
Have a child	child	0.33	0.29	0.47	Wave 5
Household Characteristics
Home language English	hlang	0.16	0.24	0.36	Wave 1
Household size	hsize	5.77	5.55	2.50	Wave 1
Female-headed household	hhead_fe	0.40	0.38	0.12	Wave 1
Mother’s education	mo_edu	0.12	0.10	0.33	Wave 1
Mother’s education missing	mo_edu_miss	0.82	0.85	0.38	Wave 1
Household income per capita (log)	lnfaminc	6.11	6.47	0.02	Wave 1

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