Table 1 Variable Information and Descriptive Statistics.
From: The impact of China’s cooperative breeding program of giant pandas on Chinese inbound tourism
Variable | Definition | Unit/Scale | Observations | Mean | Std. Dev. | min | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
tourist | Number of tourists visiting China | 100,000 persons | 2,528 | 1.808 | 6.934 | 0 | 124.2 |
pop | Population size of the source country | Millions of persons | 2,528 | 34.37 | 107.9 | 0.083 | 1,366 |
lngni | Log of per capita national income | Natural log of constant USD | 2,528 | 9.155 | 1.203 | 6.310 | 11.79 |
relativeprice | Ratio of PPP conversion factor to market exchange rate | Ratio | 2,528 | 0.566 | 0.277 | 0.128 | 1.676 |
traderatio | Ratio of merchandise trade to gross national income | Percentage (%) | 2,528 | 65.58 | 36.01 | 10.20 | 343.5 |
infrastructure | Information flow indicator from the KOF Globalization Index | Index (0–100) | 2,528 | 66.81 | 18.48 | 16.47 | 98.68 |
finance | Financial development indicator from the KOF Globalization Index | Index (0–100) | 2,528 | 55.78 | 19.25 | 11.97 | 95.28 |
polistable | Political stability and absence of violence index | Index | 2,528 | −0.100 | 0.968 | −3.181 | 1.639 |
