Table 5.

Decomposition of rural and urban 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
Urban	0.89	−0.97	0.40	−0.81	−1.37	−16.33	9.79	8.80	2.26
Rural	5.99	1.45	3.05	2.62	7.13	7.98	5.15	−14.28	−1.15
1986–1989
City	0.02	−1.29	0.76	0.62	0.09	−0.16	1.46	−1.37	−0.07
Township	0.57	0.53	1.48	0.52	2.53	12.11	−7.01	−7.05	−1.95
Village	0.85	−1.48	1.35	0.66	0.53	−2.00	0.37	1.95	0.32
1989–2000
City	3.63	2.66	4.13	1.59	8.38	15.12	−11.24	−8.64	−4.75
Township	5.91	1.72	5.95	2.84	10.51	13.33	−9.35	−8.58	−4.59
Village	7.20	0.48	9.40	4.21	14.09	20.75	−7.27	−20.37	−6.90
2000–2005
City	1.03	0.67	−1.39	−0.46	−1.17	−6.99	8.53	0.66	2.20
Township	−0.05	0.80	−3.97	−0.32	−3.49	−11.11	14.77	−0.22	3.44
Village	1.18	0.66	−1.93	−0.29	−1.55	−6.79	9.58	−0.05	2.74
2005–2010
City	3.16	3.00	−1.09	0.65	2.55	−2.75	3.18	0.17	0.61
Township	2.90	2.05	−1.13	0.01	0.94	−6.81	5.53	3.24	1.97
Village	−0.76	4.07	−5.77	0.12	−1.58	−2.47	1.29	2.00	0.82

Data source: calculated with data in Table 2.