Understanding the Impact of Rural Returnees’ Hometown Identity on Their Successful Entrepreneurship with the Operations Research Framework

Table 2

Descriptive statistics and correlations.

Variables	Mean	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Gender	1.47	0.51
2. Age	1.81	0.58	–0.132
3. Education level	1.74	0.43	0.016	0.036
4. Home identity (T1)	3.22	0.67	–0.202	–0.008	–0.064	0.773
5. Returnee creativity (T2)	3.33	0.64	–0.118	0.025	–0.119	0.625	0.771
6. Agglomeration strategy (T1)	3.14	0.72	0.081	–0.081	–0.043	–0.071	–0.011	0.756
7. Entrepreneur success (T1)	3.21	0.78	–0.199	0.049	–0.002	0.598	0.594	–0.461	0.83
AVE						0.61	0.59	0.57	0.72
CR						0.91	0.87	0.86	0.93

Note. ; The diagonal is the square root of AVE; T = TIME.