Table 2 Sample means and standard deviations
From: The remittances of migrant Tongan and Samoan nurses from Australia
| Â | NURSES | OTHERS | COMBINED | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Mean | Std. Dev. |
TONGAN (%) | 0.778 | 0.417 | 0.585 | 0.493 | 0.607 | 0.489 |
INCOME (A$) | 37604.027 | 16115.675 | 29967.769 | 14187.022 | 30886.834 | 14638.300 |
REMITTER (%) | 0.934 | 0.250 | 0.821 | 0.384 | 0.834 | 0.372 |
TOTREM (A$) | 3196.026 | 3355.530 | 2585.374 | 3511.103 | 2657.076 | 3497.460 |
REMPROP (%) | 0.095 | 0.126 | 0.095 | 0.110 | 0.095 | 0.125 |
LAND (%) | 0.425 | 0.496 | 0.351 | 0.477 | 0.359 | 0.480 |
OWNAUS (%) | 0.386 | 0.488 | 0.252 | 0.435 | 0.268 | 0.443 |
OWNOVS (%) | 0.438 | 0.498 | 0.379 | 0.485 | 0.386 | 0.487 |
AGEHOH (Yrs) | 38.475 | 8.538 | 40.592 | 10.851 | 40.323 | 10.605 |
AGENURSE (Yrs) | 36.901 | 7.959 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
SEXNURSE (%) | 0.954 | 0.210 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
MARRIED (%) | 0.869 | 0.338 | 0.878 | 0.327 | 0.877 | 0.328 |
PARENT (%) | 0.608 | 0.490 | 0.608 | 0.488 | 0.608 | 0.488 |
NURSEHOH (%) | 0.307 | 0.463 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
SPOUSE (%) | 0.053 | 0.224 | 0.087 | 0.282 | 0.083 | 0.276 |
VISITOR (%) | 0.333 | 0.473 | 0.262 | 0.440 | 0.270 | 0.444 |
HOUSNUM (%) | 4.163 | 1.830 | 4.288 | 2.038 | 4.274 | 2.014 |
INTENT (%) | 0.164 | 0.372 | 0.124 | 0.330 | 0.129 | 0.335 |
ABSENCE (Mnths) | 138.497 | 73.822 | 111.747 | 63.024 | 114.910 | 64.941 |