Table 1.
Sample characteristics, adults in rural Chinese households, 2008 (all figures are percentages except when explicitly identified as means; percentages and means are weighted to be representative of adults living in rural Chinese households).
| Total sample | Subsamples |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-migrant households |
Migrant households with no remittances |
Migrant households with remittances |
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| Migrant households | 32.1 | -- | -- | -- |
| CES-D score [mean] | 12.1 | 11.3 | 13.9 | 13.7 |
| Depression (CES-D>=16) | 26.8 | 24.7 | 29.9 | 35.0 |
| Male | 54.0 | 55.9 | 52.9 | 47.0 |
| Age (years) | ||||
| 18–24 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 0.0 |
| 25–34 | 21.6 | 27.3 | 12.4 | 1.7 |
| 35–44 | 32.9 | 34.7 | 28.9 | 29.6 |
| 45–54 | 23.7 | 18.4 | 31.4 | 43.9 |
| 55–64 | 16.0 | 13.1 | 21.1 | 24.9 |
| Marital status | ||||
| Never married | 6.6 | 8.8 | 2.7 | 0.0 |
| Currently married | 90.3 | 88.5 | 93.8 | 95.2 |
| Divorced, separated, widowed | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
| Currently working | 87.2 | 82.9 | 96.0 | 96.6 |
| Education | ||||
| No education | 12.0 | 9.0 | 19.2 | 16.0 |
| Primary school | 33.1 | 30.9 | 32.8 | 50.2 |
| Lower middle school | 37.5 | 38.4 | 37.4 | 30.7 |
| Upper middle school and tertiary | 17.4 | 21.7 | 10.5 | 3.0 |
| Monthly individual income (rmb) [mean] | 818 | 923 | 600 | 591 |
| Household size [mean] | 4.3 | 3.9 | 5.2 | 4.7 |
| Respondent had previously migrated | 22.1 | 17.1 | 29.6 | 40.2 |
| Sample size N | 709 | 462 | 165 | 82 |
About a third of migrant households had received remittances in the previous year (82/(82+165)=0.33).