Table 3 Descriptive statistics of the... | Emerald Publishing

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of the variables

	Min	Max	Mean	Median	Std. Dev
Dependent variables
ESG performance (ESG_perf)	30.1725	89.4332	61.3474	61.3646	13.3738
Independent variables
Board size (B_size)	23	7	14.2504	14.0645	4.6770
Board gender diversity (B_gend)	0	0.4267	0.3247	0.1025	0.3978
Board mass of gender diversity (B_mgend)	0	1	0.3153	0.3796	0.3059
Board age (B_age)	52.4462	65.4060	58.4242	58.4006	2.4342
Board activity (B_act)	1.089	3.677	2.037	2.044	0.526
Board independence (B_ind)	0	1	0.6085	0.6166	0.2741
CSR/sustainability committee (CSR_com)	0	1	0.5840	0.5999	0.4976
Control variables
Bank size (Size)	6.8634	9.4309	7.8265	7.8028	0.6542
Leverage (Lev)	0.0176	0.2129	0.0747	0.0853	0.0455
Return on equity (Roe)	−2.7792	0.7187	0.0416	0.0678	0.2042
GDP per capita (Gdp)	−12.5154	9.5076	0.0827	0.1595	3.6763

	Min	Max	Mean	Median	Std. Dev
Dependent variables
ESG performance (ESG_perf)	30.1725	89.4332	61.3474	61.3646	13.3738
Independent variables
Board size (B_size)	23	7	14.2504	14.0645	4.6770
Board gender diversity (B_gend)	0	0.4267	0.3247	0.1025	0.3978
Board mass of gender diversity (B_mgend)	0	1	0.3153	0.3796	0.3059
Board age (B_age)	52.4462	65.4060	58.4242	58.4006	2.4342
Board activity (B_act)	1.089	3.677	2.037	2.044	0.526
Board independence (B_ind)	0	1	0.6085	0.6166	0.2741
CSR/sustainability committee (CSR_com)	0	1	0.5840	0.5999	0.4976
Control variables
Bank size (Size)	6.8634	9.4309	7.8265	7.8028	0.6542
Leverage (Lev)	0.0176	0.2129	0.0747	0.0853	0.0455
Return on equity (Roe)	−2.7792	0.7187	0.0416	0.0678	0.2042
GDP per capita (Gdp)	−12.5154	9.5076	0.0827	0.1595	3.6763

Note(s): Panel data for the period 2017–2021

Source(s): Table by authors