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

Table 5

Multiple linear regression analysis of the disparity between aspirations and expectations.

Variables	Model 7		Model 8		Model 9
	B	SD	B	SD	B	SD
Gender (female as reference)	−0.032	0.093	0.059	0.095	−0.040	0.117
Child type (left-behind children for reference)
Children in rural complete families	0.037	0.127	0.053	0.129	0.245	0.166
Migrant children	−0.163	0.160	−0.197	0.164	−0.050	0.200
Urban children	−0.705	0.153	−0.668	0.156	−0.773	0.199
Father’s education level (elementary school and below for reference)
Junior high school	−0.250	0.115	−0.244	0.117	−0.225	0.146
High school and equivalent	−0.216	0.147	−0.199	0.151	0.033	0.183
University and above	−0.200	0.231	−0.169	0.235	−0.233	0.290
Father’s occupational category (farmers and manual workers for reference)
Service personnel and skilled workers	0.204	0.113	0.191	0.115	0.220	0.143
Clerks, private entrepreneur, or self-employed industrialists	0.049	0.148	−0.008	0.152	0.159	0.187
Management and professional and technical staff	0.334	0.203	0.249	0.205	0.099	0.249
Number of children aged 0–15 years in the family	0.150	0.060	0.182	0.060	0.177	0.079
Per capita household income in 2011 (thousand dollars)	−0.011	0.003	−0.010	0.004	−0.007^#	0.004
Cognitive level	−0.018	0.003	−0.021	0.003	−0.013	0.004
Constant term	3.936	0.370	4.126	0.369	3.203	0.453
	R^2 = 0.047, F = 12.21, N = 3238		R^2 = 0.053, F = 13.37, N = 3153		R^2 = 0.047, F = 7.75, N = 2074

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