Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the nominal variables.

From: Central transfers and incentives to collect local revenue among the Central Region of Ghana’s local government officials: analysing the flypaper effect

Statistics

Texp

Transfers

Ownrev

Population

Distance

Mean

2725893

2698824

555733.9

136214.8

146.3118

Median

2488749

1996862

298490.8

129641

129.3

Std. Dev.

1691275

4525201

880752.6

49229.8

78.31936

Minimum

1.17E + 05

95889.22

8228.89

68713

65.5

Maximum

1.02E + 07

6.67E + 07

7748625

342103

357.8

Skewness

1.896873

10.51546

4.885265

1.764636

1.481758

Kurtosis

8.404974

118.5173

35.47882

7.045682

4.393571

Observation

136

136

136

136

136

  1. Authors’ calculations, 2023.
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