Table 2.

Characteristics of Members in Latent Classes of Educational Trajectories: Two-Aspect Model

Characteristic	Latent Class
	Highest	Next-to-Highest	Next-to-Lowest	Lowest
Observed educational attainment
No formal schooling	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.574
Primary school	0.009	0.114	0.848	0.409
Junior high school	0.177	0.727	0.137	0.010
Senior high school and above	0.814	0.158	0.014	0.006
Rural-urban divide
At-birth rural hukou	0.514	0.624	0.856	0.933
Rural-to-urban hukou change by 18	0.049	0.030	0.014	0.004
Rural pre-tertiary school	0.385	0.574	0.877	0.935
Family origin
Parental education (years)	7.053	5.336	3.504	1.854
Parental professional occupation	0.293	0.193	0.083	0.028
Parent died by 14	0.068	0.099	0.114	0.193
Parent party membership	0.193	0.134	0.091	0.054
Individual characteristics
Male	0.538	0.487	0.468	0.298
First or only child	0.379	0.308	0.283	0.280
Cohort
Born 1944–60	0.260	0.300	0.380	0.612
Born 1961–70	0.251	0.344	0.330	0.225
Born 1971–86	0.488	0.356	0.289	0.164
Region
Eastern	0.439	0.321	0.267	0.226
Central	0.362	0.441	0.490	0.423
Western	0.199	0.239	0.243	0.351
Lived in a different region by 14	0.255	0.199	0.200	0.217
n	2117	1496	902	672

Note: Estimated latent class memberships from the two-aspect model in Table 3.