| Variable | Mean | Standard deviation | minimum | maximum | ||
| Child Characteristics |
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| Child at school stud = 1 if a child is at school and 0 if the child is out of school | 0.839 | 3.368 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Gender of the child male = 1 if a child is boy and 0 if otherwise | 0.498 | 0.500 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Age of the child (age) | 10.391 | 2.265 | 7 | 14 | ||
| Relation to the household head |
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| Child (rhhh_child) if the head is father or mother | 0.702 | 0.457 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Step Child (rhhh_schild) | 0.036 | 0.187 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Sister (rhhh_sister) if the head is brother or sister | 0.007 | 0.085 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Grandchild (rhhh_gchild) | 0.176 | 0.381 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Relative (rhhh_rel) if the head is other relative | 0.070 | 0.256 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Non relative (rhhh_nonrel) if the head is non relativ | 0.008 | 0.088 | 0 | 1 | ||
| State of the parents |
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| Father in the household (fath_in) | 0.611 | 0.488 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Father dead (fath_dead) | 0.097 | 0.296 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Father out of the household (fath_out) | 0.281 | 0.450 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Father unknown (fath_unkn) | 0.011 | 0.103 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mother in the household (moth_in) | 0.724 | 0.445 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mother out of the household (moth_out) | 0.221 | 0.415 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mother dead (moth_dead) | 0.052 | 0.222 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mother unknown (moth_unknown) | 0.002 | 0.049 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Parents education |
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| Father without education (fath_noed) | 0.066 | 0.249 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Father with primary education (fath_primed) | 0.225 | 0.417 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Father with secondary education (fath_seced) | 0.044 | 0.206 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Father above secondary education (fath_highed) | 0.006 | 0.074 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Father’s education unknown (fath_unknwed) | 0.659 | 0.474 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mother without education | 0.055 | 0.155 |
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| Mother with primary education (moth_primed) | 0.168 | 0.374 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mother with secondary education (moth_seced) | 0.025 | 0.155 |
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| Mother above secondary education (moth_highed) | 0.002 | 0.041 |
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| Mother’s education unknown (moth_unked) | 0.028 | 0.164 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mother’s education missed (moth_edmiss) | 0.723 | 0.448 |
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| Major fuel use for lighting |
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| Electric_light | 0.195 | 0.396 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Lamp_light | 0.704 | 0.456 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Firewood_light | 0.016 | 0.124 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Other_light | 0.085 | 0.279 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Ownership of the house |
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| Household lie free in the house (free_house) | 0.060 | 0.238 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Household rent the house (rent_house) | 0.082 | 0.275 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Household own the house (own_house) | 0.857 | 0.350 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Household member cultivate plot (hhcult_plot) | 0.777 | 0.416 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Household member fishing (hh_fishing) | 0.049 | 0.216 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Household member own livestock (hhearn_livest) | 0.632 | 0.482 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Household member earn a farm plot that do not cultivated plot (hhearn_uncultplot) | 0.142 | 0.350 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Community Characteristics |
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| Percentage under agricultural within 1 km buffer (perc_agr) | 28.056 | 24.277 | 0 | 100 | ||
| Household distance to the nearest trunk road (dist_road) | 20.194 | 24.682 | 0 | 135.3 | ||
| Distance to the nearest town (dist_town) | 44.150 | 41.021 | 0.5 | 192.8 | ||
| Distance to the nearest major market (dist_market) | 76.022 | 55.629 | 0.4 | 255.2 | ||
| Distance to the nearest border (dist_border) | 173.287 | 96.998 | 2.4 | 250.3 | ||
| Distance to the headquarters of the district of the residents (dist_distheadquat) | 36.664 | 73.334 | 0.1 | 1104.3 | ||
| Those from Tanzania mainland (mainland) | 0.845 | 0.362 | - | 1 | ||
| Household preference (fraction of the total expenditure) |
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| Food and nonalcoholic beverage (exp_food) | 0.736 | 0.143 | 0.171 | 1 | ||
| Alcohol and tobacco (exp_alctob) | 0.021 | 0.054 | 0 | 0.663 | ||
| Education (exp_ed) | 0.047 | 0.066 | 0 | 0.572 | ||
| Health (exp_health) | 0.037 | 0..064 | 0 | 0.604 | ||
| Recreation (exp_recr) | 0.000 | 0.005 | 0 | 0.118 | ||
| Utilities: water, kerosene lighting (exp_utilities) | 0.040 | 0.042 | 0 | 0.333 | ||
| Communication (exp_comm) | 0.028 | 0.037 | 0 | 0.413 | ||
| Transportation (exp_trans) | 0.041 | 0.071 | 0 | 0.731 | ||