From: Economic behavior of indigenous peoples: the Mexican case
 | Self-employed with no hired workers | Self-employed with hired workers | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Secondary sector | Total | |||
Total sample | Rural sample, 6 States | Total sample | Rural sample, 6 States | Total sample | |
Observed mean | 0.223 | 0.425 | 0.132 | 0.433 | 0.029 |
Results of Logit regressionsa | |||||
 Estimated meanb | 0.200 | 0.370 | 0.100 | 0.547 | 0.017 |
 Personal information | |||||
  Age | 0.006* | 0.008* | 0.006* | 0.127* | 0.001* |
  Age2 | 0.000* | 0.000* | 0.000* | 0.009* | 0.000* |
  Married | 0.025* | 0.032* | 0.019* | 0.023* | 0.005* |
  Unmarried | −0.045* | −0.068* | −0.030* | −0.052* | −0.008 |
  Number of children | 0.001* | 0.004* | 0.001* | 0.005* | 0.000* |
  Literacy | 0.038* | 0.056* | 0.038* | 0.127* | −0.009* |
  No education | 0.176* | 0.453* | 0.006* | 0.234* | −0.013* |
  Pre-school | 0.142* | 0.472* | 0.023* | 0.245* | −0.021* |
  Elementary school | 0.163* | 0.479* | −0.005* | 0.265* | −0.009* |
  Middle school | 0.128* | 0.402* | −0.023* | 0.134* | −0.006* |
  High school | 0.083* | 0.268* | 0.001 | 0.043 | 0.002* |
  Teaching degreec | −0.173* | −0.233* | −0.049* | 0.147 | −0.014* |
 Ethnic status | 0.083* | 0.043* | 0.144* | 0.217* | −0.006* |
 Environment | |||||
  Semirural communities | 0.004* | – | −0.015* | – | 0.003* |
  Small cities | −0.016* | – | −0.043* | – | 0.005* |
  Medium and large cities | −0.043* | – | −0.098* | – | 0.001* |
 Economic Sector | |||||
  Second sector | −0.103* | 0.184* | – | – | −0.001* |
  First sector | −0.127* | −0.032* | – | – | 0.000 |
 Number of observations | 3,662,999 | 886,966 | 477,242 | 70,786 | 3,662,999 |
 R2 (Nagelkerke) | 0.12 | 0.25 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.04 |