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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2012 Mar 19;74(2):328–341. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00951.x

Table 2. Demographic and Socioeconomic Status and Living Arrangements by Family Migration Status, 2006, CHNS.

NMa MMa FMa BMa SMa
Ageb 15.5 14.8 14.7 14.5 15.1
Male 54.0 55.8 53.7 52.4 53.9
Children’s grade levelb 7.7 7.2 7.3 6.8 7.9
HH highest education level 8.8 9.1 8.9 8.8 9.2
Per capita HH annual income (unit: yuan)b 5,297 3,739 3,540 3,336 3,850
Extended familyb 26.1 47.5 31.0 75.3 29.6
Number of school-age children in the HH (6-18)b 1.4 1.9 1.6 1.6 1.3
a

They represent children in different types of households: Non-migrant, mother migrant, father migrant, both parents migrant, and sibling migrant.

b

Differences by group are significant at the 0.05 level. Many statistical tests are significant at the 0.001 level.