On Time Effect of Preschool Education: Social Analysis Based on CUCDS

Table 4

Descriptive statistics of main variables.

Variables	Weighted mean
Child’s gender (1 = male)	0.54
Child’s age (years)	9.02 (3.84)
Father’s education level
Primary school and below	0.24
Junior middle school	0.46
Senior high school and equivalent	0.21
University or above	0.08
Mother’s educational level
Primary school and below	0.36
Junior middle school	0.41
Senior high school and equivalent	0.15
University or above	0.07
Birthplace (1 = hospital)	0.77
Number of children aged 0–15 years	1.64 (0.84)
Region
Western	0.31
Central	0.33
Eastern	0.36
Urban and rural (1 = urban)	0.39
Received preschool education or not (1 = yes)	0.70

Note. Standard deviation is given in brackets. Due to missing values, the percentage sum of some variables may not be equal to 100%.