The effect of vocational rehabilitation on the employment outcomes of disability insurance beneficiaries: new evidence from Canada

Table 2 Descriptive statistics, men

	Treatment		Comparison
	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation
Age (at onset of disability)	35.726	7.094	43.986	9.409
Married	0.632	0.485	0.657	0.475
Have children	0.632	0.485	0.450	0.498
[Less than high school]
High school	0.663	0.475	0.206	0.405
Post-secondary	0.105	0.309	0.075	0.263
University degree	0.084	0.279	0.074	0.261
[Other]
Infectious and parasitic diseases	0.042	0.202	0.037	0.190
Cancer	0.032	0.176	0.076	0.265
Blood diseases	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Mental disorders	0.116	0.322	0.258	0.438
Diseases of the nervous system	0.274	0.448	0.087	0.282
Circulatory diseases	0.084	0.279	0.155	0.362
Respiratory diseases	0.011	0.103	0.016	0.125
Diseases of digestive system	0.032	0.176	0.026	0.159
Genitourinary system diseases	0.011	0.103	0.033	0.178
Musculoskeletal and soft-tissue disorders	0.179	0.385	0.187	0.390
Congenital diseases	0.011	0.103	0.008	0.089
Zero earnings 1-year prior to application	0.347	0.479	0.293	0.455
Zero earnings 2-years prior to application	0.337	0.475	0.336	0.473
Average earnings 1-year prior to application (dollars)	10421.88	13710.64	16132.02	19302.91
Average earnings 2-years prior to application (dollars)	13089.77	15690.21	17829.55	20587.37
Provincial unemployment rate	8.058	1.802	8.316	2.699
Duration on CPPD (days)	1131.295	586.046	1149.897	617.988
Number of observations	95		884