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Table 3 Descriptive statistics.

From: Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and CO2 emissions in South Africa: fresh policy insights

Variables

Mean

Median

Maximum

Minimum

Std. Dev

Skewness

Kurtosis

J-B Stat

Probability

CO2b

0.264

0.238

0.477

0.084

0.120

0.217

1.652

4.682

0.196

SEc

7.706

7.959

8.984

6.073

0.843

-0.511

2.156

4.102

0.129

TEd

60.316

63.754

80.717

36.880

12.663

-0.387

2.082

3.422

0.181

FISDe

8.405

7.851

9.604

4.801

0.183

-0.418

1.401

3.154

0.101

TECHf

9.360

9.255

10.545

8.210

0.766

0.082

1.634

4.499

0.105

ECg

4.220

4.422

4.840

3.177

0.527

-0.558

1.921

5.621

0.160

FDIh

13.203

13.286

14.659

11.913

0.738

0.056

2.463

0.702

0.704

IGDPi

3.513

3.580

3.813

3.258

0.161

-0.215

1.697

4.474

0.107

OPENj

6.060

6.512

7.665

2.745

1.329

0.636

2.077

5.757

0.156

  1. aData source: the data was collected from World Development Indicators (see Table 2 for more details)
  2. bThe unit of CO2 emissions was kg per 2015 US$ of GDP
  3. cSE: scale effect denoting real GDP per capita, the unit of SE was current US$
  4. dTE: technique effect capturing the square of real GDP per capita, the unit of TE was current US$
  5. eFISD: Fiscal decentralization, the ratio of own revenues/expenditures to general government revenues/expenditures is used to generate an index using principal component analysis (PCA)
  6. fTECH: technological innovation, the unit of TECH was in % of GDP
  7. gEC: energy consumption, the unit of EC was kg of oil equivalent per capita
  8. hFDI: foreign direct investment, the unit of FDI was in % of GDP
  9. iIGDP: Industry, value added, the unit of IGDP was in % of GDP
  10. jOPEN: trade openness, the unit of OPEN was in % of GDP