Income Growth and Mobility of Rural Households in Kenya: Role of Education and Historical Patterns in Poverty Reduction

Table 1.Summary Statistics of Variables Used in the Models

Variable Description	Variable Name	Unit	Mean	Std Deviation
Household Income	Income	Ksh(‘000)	165.29	192.98
Distance to tarmac road	dtmrd	km	7.72	7.90
Mean dist to elect and phone	mdist	Km	4.52	4.86
Age of head	agehd	years	54.98	13.63
Education of head	educhd	years	6.36	4.89
Gender (male headedness)	malehd	1/0	.84	.37
% adults working off farm	padofe	years	.36	.27
Land cultivated	ldcult	acres	13.70	16.44
Number of livestock owned	nlvstok	count	18.21	42.49
Number of adult males	nmalad	count	2.49	1.58
Number of adult females	nfemad	count	2.41	1.41
Months head at home	month	months	10.45	3.53
Group Membership	gpmem	1/0	.77	.42
Completed primary school	primo	1/0	.53	.49
Completed high school	seco	1/0	.21	.41
Some college education	cole	1/0	.17	.38

No. of Observations=2648

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