“Too shocked to search” The COVID-19 shutdowns’ impact on the search for apprenticeships

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 3 Descriptive statistics

	Mean	SD	Min	Max
Outcomes
# Queries by day	25,386.61	11,513.79	3259	52,105
# Queries by day, canton and occupation	14.520	56.787	0	7353
Log(# Queries by day, canton and occupation)^a	1.381	1.442	0	8.903
Covariates
Stringency Index	0.559	0.179	0.194	0.815
Stringency plus Index	0.554	0.167	0.175	0.750
Stringency over time^b	1.153	0.842	0.002	2.753
Public holidays	0.025	0.157	0	1
School vacation	0.256	0.437	0	1
Share signed apprenticeship contracts^c	0.709	0.271	0.001	1

512,148 Observations. SD standard deviation
^aTo avoid NA values due to undefined log(0) we chose to add + 1 to each value before log-transformation
^bStringency Index multiplied by an in time increasing variable as described in the text
^cDue to missing information in the monitoring 389,844 observations