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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Scand J Psychol. 2015 Jun 1;56(4):384–390. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12232

Table 1.

Comparison of Socio-demographic characteristics between migrant and local children (N=1466)

Characters Total group Migrant Children Local Children
(Public School)
Chi/F

Migrant School Public School
No. of Students 1466 808 211 447
Gender (Male; %) 54.9 54.7 53.6 55.9 0.349
Age (mean, SD) 13.0,1.5 13.3, 1.5 13.1, 1.4 12.5, 1.1 44.31***
Monthly Family Income (%) 335.4***
  Under 2000 Yuan 37.1 47.0 36.5 19.5
  2000–6000 Yuan 18.6 7.9 21.8 36.2
  6000 above Yuan 9.7 1.5 2.4 28.0
  “Unknown” or no answer 34.7 43.6 39.3 16.3
Father’s Education Level (%) 657.1***
  middle school or less 55.8 76.1 64.9 14.8
  high school or professional school 15.8 13.4 16.6 19.9
  college or above 17.5 1.9 2.8 52.6
  “Unknown” or no answer 10.9 8.7 15.6 12.8
Mother’s Education Level (%) 733.4***
  middle school or less 59.1 79.6 67.3 18.3
  high school or professional school 11.1 6.1 15.2 18.3
  college or above 16.0 1.0 1.9 49.9
  “Unknown” or no answer 13.7 13.4 15.6 13.4
Living in self-own apartment (Yes; %) 30.2 11.0 16.1 71.6 521.6***
  “Unknown” or no answer 0.5 0.6 0 0.4
Computer ownership (Yes; %) 36.0 12.4 33.2 80.1 573.5***
  “Unknown” or no answer 0 0 0 0

Notes:

*

p< .05,

**

p< .01,

***

p< .001.