Taking high-stakes venture to make ends meet? Determinants and impacts of international migration of Ethiopians to the Middle East

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 4 Descriptive statistics of sampled households (for continuous variables)

Variables	Migrant sending HH		Non-migrant HH		Combined		t-value
Variables	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	t-value
Age	51.57	10.78	50.66	8.78	51.11	9.83	− 0.858
Family size	5.486	1.681	5	1.34	5.242	1.54	− 2.966***
No. livestock	3.13	2.268	3.82	2.48	3.47	2.27	2.85***
Cultivated land size	0.6778	0.429	0.915	0.49	0.796	0.479	4.776***