Table 1

Children’s Time-use and Distance to School: Descriptive Statistics by Age

	(1)	(2)	(3)
	Age 7–10	Age 11–14	All
1. Work	0.554	0.649	0.599
2. School	0.525	0.782	0.645
3. Work and school	0.279	0.476	0.371
4. Idle	0.198	0.045	0.126
5. Work only	0.276	0.173	0.228
6. School only	0.246	0.305	0.274
7. Hours work (if in work)	26.825	25.136	25.945
8. Average time to school (hours)	0.481	0.492	0.486
9. Average distance to school (kilometers)	2.559	2.435	2.501
10. percent children within given distance from school (kilometers)
1	0.34	0.35	0.34
2	0.58	0.58	0.58
3	0.72	0.72	0.72
4	0.83	0.85	0.84
5	0.89	0.89	0.89
11. percent villages with at least one child within given distance from school
1	0.80	0.80	0.80
2	0.94	0.94	0.94
3	0.98	0.98	0.98
Observations	4,597	4,045	8,642

Notes: The table reports time-use patterns of children age 7–14 in rural Tanzania. Source: HBS, 2000/01.