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Table 3 Descriptive statistics

From: On the measurement of tasks: does expert data get it right?

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Socio-economic

Tasks (BIBB/BAuA)

Tasks (BERUFENET)

Log wage

3.08

NR Analytic

0.21

NR Analytic

0.29

Female (% of total workforce)

0.53

NR Interactive

0.24

NR Interactive

0.15

Age

44.71

Routine Cognitive

0.29

Routine Cognitive

0.29

College degree

0.21

Routine Manual

0.11

Routine Manual

0.09

Vocational degree

0.73

NR Manual

0.15

NR Manual

0.18

Dropouts

0.06

    

Hours worked (Weekly)

34.10

Abstract

0.45

Abstract

0.44

Tenure (Firm, in Years)

12.95

Routine

0.41

Routine

0.38

Tenure (Occup., in Years)

24.42

(NR) Manual

0.15

(NR) Manual

0.18

N = 27,777

     
  1. I use BIBB/BAuA data that has been collected in 2011–12 and 2017–18, and data from BERUFENET, covering the years 2011–13. For the BIBB/BAuA data, see Hall et al. (2020b) and (Hall et al. (2020a), respectively. For the BERUFENET data, see Dengler et al. (2014). Descriptive statistics are weighted by sample weights