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Table 3 Description of variables

From: History matters: the long-term impact of historical immigrant size on current xenophobia in Japan

Continuous variables

N

Mean

SD

Min

Max

Xenophobia

3963

0.000

0.757

-1.872

1.726

Age

4052

53.966

15.292

20.000

80.000

Educational years

4027

13.015

2.214

9.000

16.000

Resident years

4027

31.871

20.114

0.000

80.000

Logarithm of household income

4062

2.601

2.325

0.000

9.210

Ratios of manufacturing in 2010

4062

0.231

0.049

0.150

0.316

Historical immigrant size 1920

4062

0.002

0.002

0.000

0.008

Historical immigrant size 1930

4062

0.008

0.008

0.001

0.029

Historical immigrant size 1950

4062

0.007

0.006

0.001

0.024

Historical immigrant size 1955

4062

0.008

0.007

0.001

0.025

Historical immigrant size 1960

4062

0.007

0.006

0.001

0.024

Historical immigrant size 1965

4062

0.006

0.006

0.001

0.022

Historical immigrant size 1970

4062

0.006

0.006

0.001

0.020

Historical immigrant size 1975

4062

0.006

0.006

0.001

0.020

Historical immigrant size 1980

4062

0.006

0.005

0.001

0.020

Historical immigrant size 1985

4062

0.006

0.006

0.001

0.020

Immigrant size 2010

4062

0.017

0.009

0.003

0.032

Categorical variables

Percentage (%)

High professionals

   

18.26

 

Low professionals

   

24.77

 

Self-employed

   

2.44

 

Skilled manual workers

   

9.28

 

Unskilled manual workers

   

11.06

 

Agricultural laborers

   

1.440

 

Jobless

   

32.750

 

Share of women

   

52.940

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