On Class Difference in Educational Aspirations and Educational Expectations: A CUCDS-Based Social Analysis

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of independent and control variables.

Variables	Weighted mean/ratio
Child type
Left-behind children	0.20
Complete family children	0.38
Migrant children	0.16
Urban children	0.26
Father’s education level
Elementary school and below	0.25
Junior high school	0.46
High school and equivalent	0.21
University and above	0.08
Father’s occupation
Farmers and manual workers	0.37
Service personnel and skilled workers	0.37
Clerks, private entrepreneur, or self-employed industrialists	0.17
Management and professional and technical staff	0.09
Number of children of 0–15 years in the family (pcs)	1.55 (0.82)
Per capita household income in 2011 (thousand dollars)	11.27 (16.85)
Language cognitive level	100.16 (15.08)
Mathematical cognitive level	100.26 (15.11)
English cognitive level	99.99 (14.95)
Gender of the child (1 = male)	0.54

Notes. N = 3573, may not be 3573 due to partial exclusion of missing values from the sample; standard deviation in parentheses; cognitive level is the transformed standard score.