Understanding Waiting Time from Graduation to First Employment: Survival Analysis-Based Evidence from Ethiopia

Table 1

Summary of descriptive statistics.

Variable	Obs.	Mean	Std. dev.
Time	145	43.655	29.590
Event	145	0.614	0.489
Censored	145	0.386	0.489
CGPA	145	3.106	0.520
Age	145	23.786	1.546
PRWR	145	0.924	0.668
Gender	145	0.772	0.421
PRWR	145	0.748	0.418
Fathedu	145	0.303	0.461
Mothedu	145	0.221	0.416
Fieldpref	145	0.814	0.391
Univpref	145	0.710	0.455
NCC	145	3.552	2.208
NCW	145	0.738	0.624
Internship	145	0.655	0.477

Note: Event refers to a time at which graduates find their first-time employment, while censored refers to graduates still looking for a job. Detailed descriptions of other variables are provided in Table 2.