Table 2.
Employment situation of rural-to-urban migrants in China
| Gender | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Female | Male | |
| How many jobs you have had1 | |||
| None | 75(2%) | 31(2%) | 44(2%) |
| One | 1309(31%) | 584(35%) | 725(29%) |
| Two | 1263(30%) | 539(32%) | 724(29%) |
| Three | 907(22%) | 354(21%) | 553(22%) |
| Four | 312(8%) | 102(6%) | 210(8%) |
| ≥Five | 310(7%) | 78(5%) | 232(9%) |
| Place of current employment1 | |||
| No job | 149(4%) | 54(3%) | 95(4%) |
| Restaurant | 709(17%) | 345(20%) | 364(15%) |
| Beauty Parlor | 548(13%) | 337(20%) | 211(9%) |
| Bath house/message parlor | 350(8%) | 210(12%) | 140(7%) |
| Dance Hall/Bars | 234(6%) | 210(6%) | 136(6%) |
| Construction | 744(18%) | 18(1%) | 726(29%) |
| Street Venders | 307(7%) | 102(6%) | 205(8%) |
| Small retail shop | 73(2%) | 46(3%) | 27(1%) |
| Hotel | 229(6%) | 129(8%) | 100(4%) |
| Domestic service | 159(4%) | 142(8%) | 17(1%) |
| Factory | 340(8%) | 116(7%) | 224(9%) |
| Other | 346(8%) | 96(6%) | 250(10%) |
| Monthly income (Yuan) | 877.97(727.35) | 835.58(741.73) | 906.92(716.09)** |
| Daily working hours | 10.16(3.30) | 10.09(3.51) | 10.20(3.15) |
| Days off per month | 2.88(2.25) | 3.04(2.22) | 2.77(2.27)**** |
1
Note: Responses were significantly differ by gender (p<.0001).