Characteristics | Total sample | Immigrants | Natives | |||
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 | Mean | St.Dev. | Mean | St.Dev. | Mean | St.Dev. |
Female | 0.518 | 0.499 | 0.480 | 0.499 | 0.521 | 0.495 |
Age | 48.85 | 16.66 | 44.03 | 14.58 | 49.17 | 16.74 |
Years of education | 12.14 | 2.680 | 10.81 | 2.595 | 12.220 | 2.660 |
Married | 0.638 | 0.480 | 0.739 | 0.432 | 0.631 | 0.482 |
Household income | 0.280 | 0.222 | 0.259 | 0.323 | 0.281 | 0.214 |
Living in east Germany | 0.249 | 0.432 | 0.006 | 0.077 | 0.265 | 0.441 |
Foreign nationality | 0.062 | 0.241 | 1.0 | 0.0 | Â | Â |
Turk | 0.019 | 0.139 | 0.319 | 0.466 | Â | Â |
Balkan | 0.012 | 0.109 | 0.194 | 0.395 | Â | Â |
South European | 0.017 | 0.129 | 0.276 | 0.447 | Â | Â |
West European | 0.006 | 0.081 | 0.107 | 0.309 | Â | Â |
East European | 0.003 | 0.058 | 0.055 | 0.228 | Â | Â |
Other | 0.002 | 0.053 | 0.046 | 0.211 | Â | Â |
Willingness to take risk towards: | ||||||
General | 4.385 | 2.357 | 3.945 | 2.618 | 4.414 | 2.335 |
Driving | 2.919 | 2.516 | 2.742 | 2.659 | 2.930 | 2.506 |
Financial | 2.395 | 2.205 | 2.246 | 2.338 | 2.405 | 2.196 |
Leisure | 3.390 | 2.560 | 2.922 | 2.598 | 3.421 | 2.555 |
Career | 3.563 | 2.693 | 3.066 | 2.762 | 3.596 | 2.684 |
Health | 2.906 | 2.431 | 2.766 | 2.461 | 2.915 | 2.429 |
No. of observations | 18,600 | Â | 1,154 | Â | 17,446 | Â |