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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of main variables

From: The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates

Variable

N

Mean

Std. Dev.

Min.

Max.

Suicide rate

90

23·5

17·3

2·1

77·0

Marginal farmers %

90

58·9

21·3

12·3

95·5

Cash crops %

90

23·5

15·4

3·2

58·1

Indebted farmers %

90

50·4

15·8

18·1

82·0