Figure 2

Fraction of variation in paid employment explained by age. Histogram of R2 from regression of paid employment in last 7 days on age separately by country for all MICS countries with paid employment data listed in Table 1. Limited to ages 8-14. Bin width is 0.1 (one tenth of one percent). Data range from 0.04 to 2.78 with a mean of 0.73. An R2 of 1 in the picture means that 1 percent of the variation in paid employment can be explained by age.