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Table 4 Descriptive statistics of weighted samples, means/shares, and standard errors in brackets

From: The role of labour market integration in migrants’ decisions about family reunification: a comparative study of Polish migrants in Norway, Sweden, and the UK

 

Samples

Overall

Norway

Sweden

UK

Sample size, N

1153

312

237

604

Reunited, share

0.721 (0.0149)

0.503 (0.0289)

0.591 (0.0325)

0.788 (0.0179)

Unemployment, meana

0.656 (0.0378)

0.888 (0.0723)

0.600 (0.0700)

0.602 (0.0470)

Contract (permanent), share

0.884 (0.0114)

0.827 (0.0219)

0.830 (0.0248)

0.903 (0.0142)

Age, mean, years

40.30 (0.3278)

41.06 (0.5241)

39.18 (0.5226)

40.232 (0.4198)

Gender (male), share

0.812 (0.0130)

0.941 (0.0109)

0.877 (0.0195)

0.773 (0.0172)

University degree, share

0.225 (0.0154)

0.191 (0.0224)

0.176 (0.0249)

0.239 (0.0199)

Parenthood, share

0.828 (0.0154)

0.879 (0.0199)

0.809 (0.0270)

0.817 (0.0200)

Residence length, share:

 - Up to 5 years (ref.)

0.354 (0.0177)

0.359 (0.0278)

0.489 (0.0332)

0.340 (0.0227)

 - From 5 to 9 years

0.224 (0.0143)

0.287 (0.0260)

0.246 (0.0285)

0.207 (0.0179)

 - From 9 to 13 years

0.421 (0.0170)

0.354 (0.0276)

0.265 (0.0285)

0.454 (0.0219)

Urbanisation, share:

 - Up to 50,000 people

0.417 (0.0171)

0.653 (0.0276)

0.513 (0.0331)

0.347 (0.0212)

 - 50,001–500,000 people (ref.)

0.388 (0.0175)

0.249 (0.0252)

0.260 (0.0293)

0.435 (0.0223)

 - Over 500,000 people

0.196 (0.0139)

0.097 (0.0170)

0.227 (0.0275)

0.218 (0.0181)

Residence, share:

 - Norway

0.187 (0.0108)

1.000 (0.0000)

0.000 (0.0000)

0.000 (0.0000)

 - Sweden

0.074 (0.0052)

0.000 (0.0000)

1.000 (0.0000)

0.000 (0.0000)

 - UK

0.739 (0.0123)

0.000 (0.0000)

0.000 (0.0000)

1.000 (0.0000)

  1. aMissing values for Unemployment (n = 237, or 20.6%) and Contract (n = 397, or 34.3%) have been imputed by fitting a quasi-Poisson and a multinomial regression models, respectively, based on respondents’ socio-demographic and contextual characteristics. The imputation was done independently for the national subsamples