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Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan 211
model:
The following is the list of variables used in the estimation of the
Notation and description of variables in the econometric model
Dependent variable
Labor force participation (LFP) = 1 if women
worked/looking for work
= 0 otherwise
Independent variables
Age
Marital
School
H-Income
Children
Infants
W-people
F-size
F-type
Location
Asset-agric
Tech
Age of the female respondent
Marital status (dummy variable)
1 = unmarried; 0 = married women
(Unmarried includes single, divorced and widowed
women)
Years of schooling
Head’s income
No. of children
No. of children younger than 5 years
No. of working people in the family
Size of family (No. of family members including
respondent)
Type of family (dummy variable)
1= nuclear family, 0 = otherwise
Rural/Urban (dummy variable)
1= urban, 0 = rural
Ownership of agricultural land
Weighted index of appliances
Cycle Own cycle =1, 0 = otherwise