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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of household characteristics and earthquake damage among matched birth

From: The impact of internal displacement on child mortality in post-earthquake Haiti: a difference-in-differences analysis

Variable

Non-displaced

Non-camp IDP

Camp IDP

Matched rate, % of sample

68.06 %

87.44 %

87.30 %

Number of households (% of matched households)

3,669 (61.03 %)

1,662 (27.65 %)

680 (11.31 %)

Number of births (% of total)

13,867 (64.75 %)

5,474 (25.56 %)

2,076 (9.69 %)

Household size, mean

5.20

5.44

4.35

Urban, %

48.13 %

42.44 %

63.15 %

Wealth Index, %

   

 1 = Poorest

15.09 %

20.81 %

0.00 %

 2

14.79 %

19.86 %

1.45 %

 3

37.42 %

21.17 %

80.25 %

 4

21.11 %

22.62 %

17.15 %

 5 = Richest

11.59 %

15.55 %

1.16 %

Land ownership

55.44 %

60.61 %

28.42 %

Household Head

   

 Gender: female, %

46.49 %

42.38 %

57.32 %

 Age, mean

43.27

41.07

37.88

 Highest education attained, secondary and higher, %

23.44 %

28.92 %

34.63 %

Impact of earthquake

   

 Housing damage by earthquake, %

57.58 %

46.22 %

87.52 %

 Family member(s) killed, %

3.09 %

5.20 %

8.83 %