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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market - WP 04/03

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Table A2 – Sample Characteristics of HLFS-IS Non-Proxy, Proxy and Impute Responses
  16-17 Year-Olds 18-19 Year-Olds 20-25 Year-Olds
  1997-2000 2001-2003 1997-2000 2001-2003 1997-2000 2001-2003
  Non Proxy Impute Non Proxy Impute Non Proxy Impute Non Proxy Impute Non Proxy Impute Non Proxy Impute
Age 16.48 16.41 16.56 16.48 16.44 16.52 18.53 18.44 18.52 18.50 18.35 18.50 22.47 22.31 22.60 22.38 22.16 22.47
(0.01) (0.06) (0.02) (0.01) (0.03) (0.03) (0.01) (0.08) (0.02) (0.01) (0.05) (0.03) (0.02) (0.16) (0.05) (0.02) (0.13) (0.05)
Female 0.48 0.42 .43 0.48 0.43 0.44 0.51 0.40 0.45 0.51 0.42 0.46 0.52 0.45 0.42 0.51 0.34 0.42
(0.01) (0.06) (0.02) (0.01) (0.03) (0.03) (0.01) (0.08) (0.02) (0.01) (0.06) (0.03) (0.01) (0.05) (0.01) (0.01) (0.04) (0.02)
Married 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.04 0.07 0.04 0.05 0.07 0.04 0.08 0.28 0.16 0.25 0.28 0.23 0.25
(.002) (0.01) (0.01) (.003) (0.01) (0.01) (.005) (0.03) (0.01) (0.01) (0.02) (0.01) (.005) (0.03) (0.01) (0.01) (0.03) (0.01)
New Zealand Born 0.85 0.63 0.86 0.84 0.76 0.79 0.83 0.54 0.86 0.81 0.64 0.84 0.86 0.72 0.87 0.81 0.62 0.83
(0.01) (0.06) (0.02) (0.01) (0.03) (0.02) (0.01) (0.08) (0.02) (0.01) (0.05) (0.02) (.004) (0.04) (0.01) (.005) (0.04) (0.01)
Pakeha 0.68 0.54 0.67 0.66 0.49 0.61 0.68 0.44 0.66 0.65 0.46 0.63 0.71 0.50 0.69 0.67 0.42 0.61
(0.01) (0.06) (0.02) (0.01) (0.03) (0.03) (0.01) (0.08) (0.02) (0.01) (0.06) (0.03) (.005) (0.05) (0.01) (0.01) (0.04) (0.02)
Maori 0.15 0.17 0.16 0.16 0.17 0.20 0.15 0.05 0.19 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.14 0.22 0.16 0.14 0.13 0.17
(0.01) (0.04) (0.02) (0.01) (0.02) (0.02) (0.01) (0.03) (0.02) (0.01) (0.04) (0.02) (.004) (0.04) (0.01) (.004) (0.03) (0.01)
Pacific Islander 0.07 0.04 0.08 0.08 0.13 0.05 0.07 0.12 0.08 0.08 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.09 0.07 0.16 0.08
(.004) (0.02) (0.01) (0.01) (0.02) (0.01) (.005) (0.05) (0.01) (0.01) (0.03) (0.01) (.003) (0.02) (0.01) (.003) (0.03) (0.01)
Asian 0.05 0.07 0.04 0.07 0.10 0.09 0.06 0.20 0.05 0.08 0.22 0.08 0.04 0.12 0.04 0.08 0.17 0.07
(.004) (0.03) (0.01) (.005) (0.02) (0.02) (.004) (0.06) (0.01) (0.01) (0.05) (0.01) (.002) (0.03) (0.01) (.003) (0.03) (0.01)
Wage or Salary Worker 0.41 0.27 0.52 0.43 0.24 0.54 0.52 0.27 0.65 0.53 0.31 0.64 0.64 0.37 0.65 0.65 0.50 0.67
(0.01) (0.05) (0.02) (0.01) (0.03) (0.03) (0.01) (0.07) (0.02) (0.01) (0.05) (0.03) (0.01) (0.05) (0.01) (0.01) (0.04) (0.01)
Hours worked Last week 16.32 14.80 18.14 17.91 12.03 20.82 27.30 24.64 28.76 28.01 26.93 29.74 34.10 33.29 34.82 33.45 34.38 33.83
(0.40) (2.87) (1.21) (0.43) (1.55) (1.30) (0.41) (6.04) (1.03) (0.46) (3.19) (1.05) (0.21) (3.08) (0.58) (0.24) (1.62) (0.64)
Studying 0.78 0.89 0.66 0.76 0.83 0.64 0.38 0.54 0.21 0.38 0.60 0.28 0.17 0.21 0.11 0.21 0.28 0.13
(0.01) (0.04) (0.02) (0.01) (0.02) (0.03) (0.01) (0.08) (0.02) (0.01) (0.06) (0.02) (.004) (0.04) (0.01) (.005) (0.04) (0.01)
Unemployment 0.10 0.13 0.06 0.08 0.05 0.04 0.11 0.06 0.09 0.10 0.04 0.03 0.08 0.03 0.05 0.06 0.02 0.03
(0.01) (0.04) (0.01) (0.01) (0.02) (0.01) (0.01) (0.04) (0.01) (0.01) (0.02) (0.01) (.003) (0.02) (0.01) (.003) (0.01) (0.01)
Inactive 0.09 0.04 0.08 0.07 0.11 0.05 0.16 0.21 0.17 0.14 0.11 0.08 0.20 0.41 0.15 0.16 0.23 0.11
(.005) (0.02) (0.01) (0.01) (0.02) (0.01) (0.01) (0.06) (0.02) (0.01) (0.04) (0.01) (.004) (0.05) (0.01) (.005) (0.03) (0.01)
Received Non-Student benefits 0.05 0.06 0.09 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.18 0.25 0.13 0.14 0.18 0.05 0.21 0.45 0.18 0.17 0.32 0.13
(.004) (0.03) (0.01) (.004) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.07) (0.02) (0.01) (0.04) (0.01) (.004) (0.05) (0.01) (.005) (0.04) (0.01)
Labour earnings Last week 120.28 115.91 145.28 150.28 89.48 184.14 257.63 226.25 246.37 277.26 249.93 289.36 436.63 356.53 472.82 433.75 397.94 502.24
(3.35) (21.76) (9.06) (4.57) (11.25) (11.34) (4.16) (64.26) (9.98) (4.98) (33.91) (10.84) (3.33) (35.07) (8.27) (3.64) (24.57) (9.62)
Total Income Last week 57.70 45.99 109.81 74.76 29.74 130.79 183.41 133.61 199.87 193.14 126.04 216.53 344.60 243.95 396.45 344.14 266.79 441.77
(1.75) (10.84) 6.75) (2.53) (4.49) (9.35) (3.02) (25.18) (9.28) (3.69) (17.82) (11.22) (2.80) (18.11) (7.51) (3.27) (17.85) (9.67)
Observations 3,553 78 461 2,622 224 347 2,977 42 437 2,344 78 345 8,618 110 1,380 6,594 162 999

 

Notes: Estimated standard errors controlling for Primary Sampling Unit (PSU) cluster in parentheses. All summary statistics are weighted by the HLFS sampling weights. Wages, earnings and incomes are in constant (June 1999) dollar values, adjusted using the CPI.

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