Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of independent variables
| Variables | Whole sample
|
The old generation
|
The new generation
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Generation | ||||||
| The new generation | 0.52 | — | / | / | / | / |
| Individual factors | ||||||
| Age | / | / | 37.89 | 5.87 | 24.31 | 3.62 |
| Male | 0.51 | — | 0.66 | — | 0.37 | — |
| Married | 0.66 | — | 0.94 | — | 0.39 | — |
| Human capital | ||||||
| Educational attainment | ||||||
| Primary & below | 0.12 | — | 0.20 | — | 0.05 | — |
| Senior high & above | 0.29 | — | 0.25 | — | 0.34 | — |
| Work experience | 1.76 | 0.43 | 1.88 | 0.43 | 1.64 | 0.40 |
| Dialect proficiency | 0.24 | — | 0.22 | — | 0.27 | — |
| Social capital | 0.11 | — | 0.12 | — | 0.10 | — |
| Initial migration motives | ||||||
| Skill-driven | 0.10 | — | 0.02 | — | 0.17 | — |
| Preference for city life | 0.12 | — | 0.04 | — | 0.20 | — |
| Familial factors | ||||||
| Spouse at hometown | 0.15 | — | 0.24 | — | 0.06 | — |
| Children at hometown | 0.34 | — | 0.50 | — | 0.19 | — |
| Parents’ health status | 0.17 | — | 0.26 | — | 0.08 | — |
| Working and living conditions | ||||||
| Job nature | ||||||
| Non-manual/semi-manual | 0.10 | — | 0.09 | — | 0.11 | — |
| Self-employed | 0.18 | — | 0.27 | — | 0.10 | — |
| Number of jobs taken | 1.84 | 1.93 | 1.99 | 2.28 | 1.71 | 1.53 |
| Income | 2.94 | 0.65 | 2.98 | 0.68 | 2.90 | 0.63 |
| Housing condition | ||||||
| Scattered-housing | 0.67 | — | 0.77 | — | 0.57 | — |
| Social conditions of host area | ||||||
| Discrimination | 0.02 | — | 0.04 | — | 0.01 | — |
| Social and economic conditions of origin areas | ||||||
| Central | 0.51 | — | 0.50 | — | 0.52 | — |
| Eastern | 0.25 | — | 0.25 | — | 0.26 | — |
| Number of cases | 1598 | 762 | 836 | |||
Note: the dividing year is 1975.
Source: Data from the 2005 Shenzhen Survey of rural-urban migrants.