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The Linkage between Imported Energy and Trade in Taiwan

Table 2

Summary of descriptive statistics for each variable.


Variables	IM	EX	ENERGY	OIL	COAL

Mean	14,344.07	14,697.77	8,612,447.00	3,534,980.00	608,598.60
Median	14,162.30	14,047.77	8,732,205.00	3,597,263.00	610,022.50
Maximum	19,304.83	23,346.08	10,767,180.00	4,520,889.00	817,602.00
Minimum	8,873.38	6,682.42	5,835,672.00	2,496,122.00	405,642.00
Std. dev.	2,438.75	4,183.41	1,165,938.00	470,136.10	89,032.28
Skewness	−0.11	0.17	−0.34	−0.24	0.13
Kurtosis	2.06	1.86	2.27	2.14	2.48
Jarque-Bera	5.61	8.45	5.93	5.82	2.02

Variables	GAS	EX_I	EX_HI	EX_NHI

Mean	196,386.70	14,477.83	11,331.66	3,145.34
Median	193,052.50	13,807.70	11,277.06	3,228.32
Maximum	265,803.00	23,160.29	19,793.93	4,061.47
Minimum	161,029.00	6,453.43	3,894.20	1,933.31
Std. dev.	18,147.55	4,211.12	4,225.56	350.29
Skewness	0.67	0.17	0.16	−0.90
Kurtosis	3.52	1.86	1.78	3.99
Jarque-Bera	12.53	8.45	9.56	25.09

Note: IM is total imports; EX is total exports; ENERGY is total energy consumption; OIL is oil and petroleum products consumption; COAL is coal and coal products consumption; GAS is natural gas consumption; EXI is the export value of the industrial sector; EX_HI is the export value of heavy-chemical industrial products; EX_NHI is the export value of non-heavy-chemical industrial products.