Poverty and health care demand in Kenya

Table 3 Descriptive statistics, the entire sample

Variable	Number of	Mean	Standard	Minimum	Maximum
	observations		deviation
Health care provider	17,252	2.3254	0.9048	1	3
Poor	17,285	0.4747	0.4994	0	1
Rural	17,285	0.7203	0.4489	0	1
Male	17,285	0.4478	0.4973	0	1
Infant age	733	6.5634	3.0019	1	11
Household size	17,285	6.1345	2.9466	1	29
Fever/Malaria	17,285	0.4261	0.4945	0	1
Flu	17,285	0.1381	0.3450	0	1
Headache	17,285	0.0583	0.2343	0	1
Other illness	17,285	0.3775	0.4848	0	1
Severe underweight	17,285	0.0468	0.0276	0	0.15
Age	16,552	25.0521	21.2424	1	97
Age squared	16,552	1078.822	1557.066	1	9409
Catholic	17,285	0.1795	0.3838	0	1
Protestant	17,285	0.3130	0.4637	0	1
Muslim	17,285	0.0616	0.2404	0	1
Other religion	17,285	0.4459	0.4971	0	1
No education	17,285	0.4194	0.4935	0	1
No education-household head	17,285	0.2730	0.4455	0	1
Married	17,285	0.3175	0.4655	0	1
Married-household head	17,285	0.7743	0.4180	0	1
Distance to nearest health facility	17,285	8.4843	9.8601	2.6	58

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