TABLE 1.
Socio-Demographic Profiles of Children from Households with and without Emigrants in Fujian Province by School Enrollment Status, 1995 (Column Percentages)
| Variables | Children of emigrants |
Children of non-emigrants |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrolled (%) | Not enrolled (%) | Enrolled (%) | Not enrolled (%) | |
| Gender | ||||
| Boy | 52.0 | 54.2 | 53.2 | 42.8 |
| Girl | 48.0 | 45.8 | 46.8 | 57.2 |
| Age | ||||
| 6–9 | 46.3 | 87.5 | 40.9 | 61.4 |
| 10–12 | 31.7 | 0.0 | 34.2 | 5.1 |
| 13–15 | 22.0 | 12.5 | 24.9 | 33.5 |
| Educational attainment of household head | ||||
| No formal education | 6.9 | 4.2 | 11.5 | 15.1 |
| Elementary school | 43.9 | 41.7 | 49.7 | 53.3 |
| Junior high school | 34.2 | 41.7 | 26.0 | 23.8 |
| High school | 13.8 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 7.1 |
| Some college+ | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Place of origin | ||||
| City | 10.6 | 8.3 | 11.0 | 6.5 |
| Town | 19.9 | 16.7 | 7.8 | 5.8 |
| Rural | 69.5 | 75.0 | 81.2 | 87.6 |
| Number of children ages 6–15 in household | ||||
| 1 | 23.6 | 41.7 | 23.7 | 34.1 |
| 2 | 38.6 | 20.8 | 42.5 | 34.6 |
| 3 | 27.2 | 20.8 | 23.4 | 20.4 |
| 4+ | 10.6 | 16.7 | 10.4 | 11.0 |
| Housing area (sq-meter) | ||||
| Up to 50 | 20.3 | 20.8 | 27.1 | 32.0 |
| 50–100 | 33.7 | 54.2 | 34.7 | 36.3 |
| 100–150 | 21.5 | 8.3 | 18.0 | 15.4 |
| 150+ | 24.4 | 16.7 | 20.2 | 16.3 |
| Number of rooms in house | ||||
| 1 | 9.8 | 25.0 | 17.3 | 22.8 |
| 2 | 33.3 | 41.7 | 30.5 | 31.7 |
| 3 | 15.4 | 8.3 | 16.1 | 15.6 |
| 4 | 15.4 | 16.7 | 16.1 | 14.1 |
| 5+ | 26.0 | 8.3 | 20.1 | 15.8 |
| Number of observations | 246 | 24 | 34,432 | 6,075 |
Source: The 1995 China 1% Population Sample Survey