Table 6.
Men’s individual and family characteristics before marriage
| Married men | Involuntary bachelors |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men marrying out-of- province wives |
Men marrying local wives with difficulty |
Men marrying local wives smoothly |
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| (20) | (63) | (121) | (134) | |
| Middle school and higher (%) |
55.0 | 73.0 | 81.8 | 50.0 |
| Disabled (%) | 0.0 | 6.3 | 5.0 | 27.6 |
| Parents with poor economic condition (%) |
25.0 | 55.6 | 30.6 | 58.2 |
| Number of brothers (including himself) |
2.0 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.0 |
| Number of sisters | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
| Difference between numbers of brothers and sisters |
1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 |