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

Table 2

Summary of definitions and measurements of variables used.

Variable	Description	Measurement
Time	Duration of unemployment period	Weeks
CGPA	Cumulative gross point average	CGPA
Age	Age of graduates	Year
Gender	Gender of graduates	Dummy: 1 if male, 0 if female
PRWR	Preferred work region of graduates	Dummy: 1 if yes, 0 otherwise
HFYFJ	How do you find your first job?	Categorical
Wregion	Working region	Categorical
Department	Department of graduates	Categorical
BornReg	Born region of graduates	Categorical
Fathedu	Educational level of graduates’ father	Dummy: 1 if educated, 0 otherwise
Sec	Sector of employed	Categorical
Mothedu	Educational level of graduates’ mother	Dummy: 1 if educated, 0 otherwise
Fieldpref	Preference field of study	Dummy: 1 if yes, 0 otherwise
Univpref	University preference	Dummy: 1 if yes, 0 otherwise
NCC	Number of companies contacted	Continuous
PRWR	Preferred work region	Dummy: 1 if yes, 0 otherwise
NCW	Number of companies worked	Continuous
Wregion	Work region of graduates	Categorical
Internship	Internship done	Dummy: 1 if yes, 0 otherwise
Sector	Sector where graduates employed	Categorical

Note: HFYFJ refers to the methods by which graduates find their first job. For a list of methods of finding a job, see Table 3. BornReg and Wregion refer to the region where graduates are born and the region where they are getting employed, respectively. Ethiopia is the Federal Democratic Republic composed of 9 National Regional States and two administrative councils. This study is conducted on graduates from nine departments (for the list of departments, see Figure 1).