Table 3 Major categories and sub-categories of socioeconomic indictors and their descriptive statistics
From: Development of two socioeconomic indices for Saudi Arabia
Variablesa | Mean | SD | Skewness | Kurtosis | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Educational status | ||||||
Illiterate & read/write | 00.40 | 00.09 | 00.43 | 03.74 | 00.18 | 00.73 |
School degree | .49 | 00.06 | − 00.56 | 04.68 | 00.22 | 00.66 |
Diploma & university | .09 | 00.03 | 00.35 | 03.69 | 00.01 | 00.20 |
Higher education | 0 | 0 | 02.55 | 12.46 | 0 | 00.01 |
Employment status | ||||||
In the labour force | .48 | 00.07 | 00.32 | 02.64 | 00.31 | 00.66 |
Students | .17 | 00.03 | −00.54 | 03.94 | 00.05 | 00.23 |
Housewives | 00.26 | 00.05 | 00.51 | 03.22 | 00.16 | 00.41 |
Retired | 00.03 | 00.01 | 00.11 | 02.62 | 0 | 00.06 |
Other employment | 00.03 | 00.01 | 00.86 | 03.37 | 0 | 00.08 |
Type of housing | ||||||
Traditional house (TH) | 00.44 | 00.22 | 00.39 | 01.96 | 00.03 | 00.89 |
Villa | 00.20 | 00.13 | 00.20 | 01.70 | 00.01 | 00.51 |
Floor in TH or villa | 00.07 | 00.05 | 00.78 | 02.74 | 0 | 00.23 |
Apartment | 00.17 | 00.14 | 01.51 | 04.94 | 0 | 00.64 |
Other type of housing | 00.10 | 00.07 | 02.73 | 15.51 | 00.01 | 00.54 |
Tenure of housing | ||||||
Home owned | 00.57 | 00.14 | −00.32 | 02.37 | 00.24 | 00.84 |
Home rented | 00.26 | 00.12 | 00.79 | 03.53 | 0 | 00.63 |
Home provided | 00.15 | 00.09 | 01.41 | 05.57 | 00.02 | 00.51 |
Other tenure | 00.01 | 00.01 | 03.33 | 15.91 | 0 | 00.07 |
Car ownership | ||||||
No car available | 00.29 | 00.09 | 00.78 | 03.00 | 00.12 | 00.53 |
One car | 00.46 | 00.07 | 00.35 | 03.29 | 00.27 | 00.69 |
Two or more cars | 00.24 | 00.08 | −00.33 | 02.07 | 00.03 | 00.38 |
Household amenities | ||||||
Phone not available | 00.46 | 00.19 | 00.66 | 02.66 | 00.13 | 00.96 |
TV not available | 00.21 | 00.12 | 01.30 | 05.39 | 00.03 | 00.72 |
PC not available | 00.80 | 00.11 | −00.96 | 03.93 | 00.43 | 00.98 |
Internet not available | 00.87 | 00.08 | −01.36 | 05.16 | 00.58 | 00.99 |
Library not available | 00.84 | 00.08 | −00.70 | 03.15 | 00.57 | 00.98 |
Satellite not available | 00.63 | 00.17 | −00.57 | 03.14 | 00.13 | 00.97 |
Video not available | 00.78 | 00.13 | −00.85 | − 03.25 | 00.35 | 00.98 |
Video games not available | 00.77 | 00.09 | −00.34 | 02.85 | 00.48 | 00.97 |