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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of variables

From: Exploring the intergenerational persistence of health behaviour: an empirical study of smoking from China

Variables

Total sample (1)

Smoking sample (2)

Non-smoking sample (3)

Smoking (=1)

0.030

1.000

0.000

Number of cigarettes smoked per day

0.254

8.346

-

Mother smoker (=1)

0.025

0.053

0.024***

Father smoker (=1)

0.715

0.902

0.709***

Number of cigarettes mother smoked per day

0.226

0.511

0.217*

Number of cigarettes father smoked per day

11.665

14.541

11.574***

Age

15.508

16.784

15.468***

Female (=1)

0.484

0.015

0.499***

Living in rural area (=1)

0.714

0.722

0.714

Mother’s age

42.237

43.679

42.191***

Father’s age

43.988

46.189

43.919***

Father’s education year

7.640

6.391

7.679***

Mother’s education year

5.729

4.887

5.755***

Mother’s employment type

 Unemployed

0.171

0.165

0.171

 Farmer

0.113

0.143

0.112

 Collective owned enterprises

0.470

0.519

0.468

 Private or foreign enterprises

0.063

0.053

0.063

 Government or state owned

0.160

0.075

0.162***

 Other employment

0.010

0.015

0.010

Father’s employment type

 Unemployed

0.083

0.113

0.082

 Farmer

0.103

0.135

0.102

 Collective owned enterprises

0.432

0.459

0.431

 Private or foreign enterprises

0.103

0.090

0.103

 Government or state owned enterprises

0.253

0.135

0.256***

 Other employment

0.011

0.023

0.011

Annual household income per capita

4464.620

4089.133

4476.412

N

4368

133

4235

  1. Note: (1) The statistics reported are the sample mean. (2) Asterisks (***) denote statistically significant difference between the urban and rural groups (at 5% level). (3) The annual household per capita income is measured in 2009 yuan and is calculated by dividing the total household income by number of people in the family (parents and adolescents)