Table 4 Selected descriptive statistics
From: The RUMiC longitudinal survey: fostering research on labor markets in China
Rural household survey | Urban household survey | Migrant household survey | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variables | Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 1 | Wave 2 | ||||
All | Not tracked | Tracked | Old S. | New S. | All | |||||
Age | 36.290 | 37.028 | 40.139 | 40.808 | 28.790 | 28.700 | 28.915 | 29.885 | 28.898 | 29.270 |
(19.065) | (19.213) | (19.214) | (19.307) | (12.695) | (12.253) | (13.291) | (13.303) | (13.199) | (13.246) | |
Male (%) | 0.518 | 0.516 | 0.495 | 0.496 | 0.568 | 0.574 | 0.560 | 0.560 | 0.558 | 0.559 |
(0.500) | (0.500) | (0.500) | (0.500) | (0.495) | (0.495) | (0.497) | (0.497) | (0.497) | (0.497) | |
Married (%) | 0.620 | 0.631 | 0.684 | 0.691 | 0.557 | 0.528 | 0.597 | 0.614 | 0.533 | 0.563 |
(0.485) | (0.483) | (0.465) | (0.462) | (0.497) | (0.499) | (0.491) | (0.487) | (0.499) | (0.496) | |
N. of children | 2.069 | 2.060 | 1.349 | 1.387 | 0.795 | 0.739 | 0.874 | 0.908 | 1.447 | 1.167 |
(1.195) | (1.200) | (0.891) | (0.996) | (0.921) | (0.889) | (0.959) | (0.955) | (0.895) | (0.965) | |
Health status | 1.975 | 2.041 | 2.182 | 2.289 | 1.765 | 1.750 | 1.786 | 2.013 | 1.835 | 1.899 |
(0.816) | (0.830) | (0.789) | (0.761) | (0.744) | (0.716) | (0.782) | (0.764) | (0.740) | (0.753) | |
Happiness* | 1.758 | 1.795 | 1.749 | 1.764 | 1.778 | 1.801 | 1.742 | 1.890 | 1.843 | 1.859 |
(0.610) | (0.592) | (0.603) | (0.578) | (0.646) | (0.651) | (0.636) | (0.624) | (0.620) | (0.622) | |
Wage employment** | 0.347 | 0.354 | 0.631 | 0.619 | 0.682 | 0.753 | 0.575 | 0.545 | 0.700 | 0.644 |
(0.476) | (0.478) | (0.483) | (0.486) | (0.466) | (0.432) | (0.494) | (0.498) | (0.458) | (0.479) | |
Self-employment** | 0.059 | 0.062 | 0.050 | 0.055 | 0.213 | 0.157 | 0.296 | 0.351 | 0.209 | 0.260 |
(0.235) | (0.242) | (0.218) | (0.229) | (0.409) | (0.364) | (0.456) | (0.478) | (0.406) | (0.439) | |