Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China

Table 2

Descriptive statistics.

Varibales	Definition	Obs.	Unit	SD	Mean	Min	First quartile	Median quartile	Third quartile	Max	Kurtosis	Skewness
	Urban sprawl	1710	-	0.328	-0.712	-6.908	-0.907	-0.696	-0.506	0.000	73.994	-4.083
	Population density	1710	Person/km^2	0.301	8.742	7.252	8.549	8.724	8.962	9.796	0.760	-0.199
	The shares of land leasing revenue in GDP	1710	%	0.301	8.742	7.252	8.549	8.724	8.962	9.796	0.760	-0.199
	The shares of both deposits and loans in GDP	1710	%	0.500	3.826	-0.530	3.637	3.916	4.150	4.567	7.607	-2.001
	The number of college students per 10,000 people	1710	Person	0.410	5.322	4.074	5.030	5.260	5.568	7.240	0.748	0.646
	Per capita GDP	1710	RMB	1.047	4.785	0.637	4.073	4.816	5.481	7.179	-0.078	-0.129
	Per capita; fiscal expenditure	1710	RMB	0.573	10.858	8.327	10.483	10.861	11.253	13.056	0.212	-0.020
	Per capita; education expenditure	1710	RMB	0.603	9.083	6.536	8.715	9.117	9.443	11.723	1.162	0.059
	Number of beds in hospital per 10,000 people	1710	Bunk	0.550	7.263	4.218	6.948	7.272	7.557	9.826	2.291	-0.053
	Green area coverage in built-up areas	1710	%	0.432	4.198	-1.202	3.958	4.251	4.474	5.554	14.860	-1.716