Coupling and Coordinated Development of Higher Vocational Education and Economic Development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2008 to 2020
Table 1
Comprehensive evaluation indicator system and weights of higher vocational education system and regional economic development system.
System level
Criterion-level
Evaluation indicator level
Unit
Nature
Weight
Higher vocational education system
Education scale
Number of higher vocational colleges
College
Positive
0.0736
Enrolments
Person
Positive
0.1117
Number of students at colleges
Person
Positive
0.1290
Education quality
National fiscal education funds
RMB 1000
Positive
0.1049
Educational income
RMB 1000
Positive
0.0775
Teacher-student ratio
—
Negative
0.0078
Education achievement
Number of granted patents of higher vocational college
Patent
Positive
0.2136
Number of awards in national competition for skills of vocational education (higher vocational college group)
Award
Positive
0.1919
Number of national model (backbone) and “high-level higher vocational college with Chinese characteristics and specialty construction plan” higher vocational colleges
College
Positive
0.0900
Regional economic development system
Economic scale
Per capita gross regional product
RMB
Positive
0.1034
Employees in all sectors of society
10,000 persons
Positive
0.0743
Economic structure
Proportion of secondary industry in GDP
%
Positive
0.0293
Proportion of tertiary industry in GDP
%
Positive
0.0716
Economic benefit
Per capita income gap between urban and rural areas
RMB
Negative
0.0196
GDP growth rate
%
Positive
0.0121
Engel coefficient
%
Negative
0.0449
Innovative development
Number of granted patents
Award
Positive
0.2581
Internal expenditure of research & development (R&D) fund
RMB 10,000
Positive
0.1971
Full-time equivalent of research & development (R&D) personnel
