The impact of the fifa world Cup 2010 on unemployment in South Africa Michiel Antoine Oosterbaan

Table 2: The dummy variables 
Variable
Observations 
Mean 
Standard 
deviation
Minimum 
Maximum 
WC
i
675 
0.120 
0.325 
0 
1 
Post
t
675 
0.222 
0.416 
0 
1 
PostWC
i, t
675 
0.027 
0.161 
0 
1 
TrWC
i
675 
0.600 
1.856 
0 
9 
TrPost
t
675 
0.333 
0.667 
0 
2 
TrPostWC
i, t
675 
0.040 
0.255 
0 
2 
Table 2 shows that 12% of all observations are host municipalities, whereas 2.7% of all 
observations correspond to host municipalities in the post-FIFA World Cup 2010 period. 
The unemployment and population figures are yearly numbers for the municipalities. The 
development of the unemployment and population in the nine host municipalities is compared 
to the development of the non host municipalities in figure 2 below. 
 
 
 
 

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Fig. 2: Comparison of the unemployment figures in the host municipalities and non host 
municipalities of the FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa 
Source: IHS Global Insight South Africa 
Figure 2 illustrates that the development in the two groups show largely the same trend for 
unemployment. In the beginning the unemployment in host municipalities drops below the 
unemployment of the non host municipalities onwards until 2009. However from 2008 
onwards the unemployment in the host municipalities rose more strongly than in the non host 
municipalities, resulting in higher unemployment numbers from 2009 onwards. The 
characteristics of the dependent variable are summarized in table 3.