Table 4.

Decomposition of China data

Year	Difference of SRB	Effect of SRB by birth order				Effect of compositional change
		First	Second	Third and above	Sum	First	Second	Third and above	Sum
1981–1986	5.34	1.17	2.79	2.36	6.32	6.82	4.88	−12.68	−0.98
1986–1989	0.76	−1.29	1.13	0.58	0.42	−2.13	0.60	1.87	0.34
1989–1993	0.18	0.23	2.57	−0.07	2.73	13.01	−6.00	−9.56	−2.55
1993–2000	5.86	1.03	5.24	2.60	8.86	8.92	−3.87	−8.06	−3.01
2000–2005	0.58	0.90	−2.24	−0.31	−1.66	−6.10	8.77	−0.44	2.23
2005–2010	0.71	3.48	−3.80	0.29	−0.04	−2.49	1.84	1.40	0.75

Data source: calculated with data in Table 2.