Appendix A. Table of regressors

Table A1.  Regressors

Disability

  • A dummy where 1 denotes the presence of persons with disabilities and zero otherwise.

Other factors

  • One dummy for gender (female and male).
  • Five dummies for age groups (15–19, 20–29, 30–39, 40–49, 50–59 and 60–64).
  • Two dummies for marital status (never married, married, divorced/widowed).
  • One dummy for geographical location (urban and rural).
  • Four dummies for household wealth quintiles (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 and Q5).
  • Six dummies for education (illiterate, reads and writes, primary, preparatory, general secondary, vocational secondary, tertiary education).
  • One dummy for the status in the household.
  • The household size (continuous variable).
  • The unemployment rate at the governorate level (continuous variable).

The additional explanatory variable in the last model

  • Seven dummies for economic activity:
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing.
  • Manufacturing, mining and quarrying.
  • Electricity, gas, water supply, sewage, accommodation and food service activities, ICT, financial and insurance activities.
  • Construction and real estate activities.
  • Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
  • Transportation and storage.
  • Professional, scientific and technical activities, arts, entertainment and recreation, activities of households as employers, human health and social work activities.
  • Public administration and defence, compulsory social security, education.