Health status convergence at the local level: empirical evidence from Austria

Table 1 Summary statistics (community level)

Variable	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min.	Max.
SMR, overall	1069.264	159.124	533.007	2693.433
SMR, growth rate	-32.594	8.321	-74.739	82.573
Male SMR	1392.273	192.674	501.927	2875.495
Male SMR, growth rate	-32.276	8.697	-76.765	189.509
Female SMR	855.070	157.059	402.022	2508.721
Female SMR, growth rate	-33.335	10.619	-92.913	80.362
Gender Mortality Gap	537.203	146.849	-1023.080	1814.17
Gender Mortality Gap, growth rate*	-5.828	1069.361	-98.530	84084.672
Education, average	1.509	0.246	1.020	2.290
Social attachments	0.494	0.901	-1.217	3.415
Foreigners, share	2.828	2.566	0.000	33.202
Labor participation rate	41.740	3.280	26.700	62.300
Commuter ratio	9.850	9.910	0.000	138.001

Notes: Means and standard deviations are weighted by population. All reported values correspond to the first period (1969-1984), while the socioeconomic variables are taken from the census 1971. Growth rates report the percentage change from period one (1969-84) to period two (1988-2004).
*In the case of this variable, we excluded observations with negative values in one of the two periods. Thus, the reported values include only 2324 (out of 2381) communities.

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