Do Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and financial development contribute to economic diversification? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Economic Structures

The Official Journal of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS)

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of variables.

	HHI^e	FIXEDBB^a	FIXEDTSP^a	ICTGIMPOT^a	INTUSE^a	MOBUSE^a	SINTERNET^d	FINDEV^a
Mean	0.374	0.487	2.804	3.935	10.038	49.102	145.712	22.502
Median	0.366	0.062	0.950	3.536	4.500	40.604	3.943	14.804
Maximum	0.636	21.639	34.273	12.774	62.000	163.875	14,353.11	160.125
Minimum	0.261	0.0001	0.000	0.595	0.015	0.000	0.000	0.403
Std. dev	0.063	1.889	5.331	2.079	12.814	42.521	1158.825	25.909
Skewness	1.152	7.998	3.776	1.273	1.872	0.647	10.102	3.199
Kurtosis	5.013	74.799	18.512	4.979	6.136	2.468	107.700	13.992
Obs	740	740	740	740	740	740	740	740

	FININC	RLAW^e	GEXP^b	TROPEN^a	L^c	K^b	INF^a
Mean	4.917	− 0.579	4.11	68.784	7.92	6.73	6.927
Median	3.252	− 0.598	1.42	60.332	4.97	2.15	5.041
Maximum	35.051	1.077	82.71	175.798	59.87	85.75	98.224
Minimum	0.136	− 1.852	0.0387	19.101	0.128	0.0242	− 60.496
Std. dev	5.382	0.598	10.51	31.531	10.64	13.63	8.878
Skewness	2.996	0.435	5.20	0.976	2.70	3.55	2.365
Kurtosis	13.927	2.868	32.20	3.492	10.92	15.89	27.122
Obs	740	740	740	740	740	740	740