Table 1 Variable names and definitions.
From: The impact and effectiveness of China’s entrepreneurship policy for back-home migrant workers
Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
Gender | =1 if male, =0 if female |
Age | =2020-birth year |
Marital status | =0 if respondent is cohabiting or unmarried, =1if first-married, remarried, divorced, and widowed |
Ethnicity | =1if the respondent’s ethnicity is Han, =0 if others |
CPC member | =1if the respondent is a CPC member, =0 if others |
East | =1if the respondent lives in the east China, =0 if in the central or the west China |
Central | =1if the respondent lives in the midland of China, =0 if in the east or the west China |
Pilot county | =1 if the respondent lives in one of the 341 entrepreneurship pilot counties, =0 if not |
Cadre | =1 if the respondent is either a township cadre or village cadre,=0 if common people |
Dependent | =the actual number of dependents in a household |
Education | =years of formal education received |
Health | =1 if the respondent feels his or her health condition is better or much better than that of his or her peers, =0 if he or she feels the same/worse/ much worse |
Years of working | =total number of years being employed at the time of survey |
Work location | =1 if the respondent ever Worked in a municipality or provincial city, =0 if in a prefecture-level city or below |
Monthly income | =the actual average monthly wage income in the last year of being employed |
Contract nature | =1 if the respondent got a fixed or long-term contract when being employed, =0 if otherwise |
Social security | =1if the respondent did not have any social security when being employed, =0 if otherwise |
Job position | =1 if the respondent’ job position was either technical personnel or line manager or middle manager or top manager when being employed, =0 if Front-line worker or general clerk |
Policy1 | =0 if the respondent knows nothing about the entrepreneurship policies enacted since 2015, =1 if heard but do not know about, knows something, knows the most part, knows very well |
Entrepreneur | =1 if the respondent is now self-employed or a employer, =0 if Farming locally, being employed within or outside the county |
Ln founding year | =ln (2020 - founding year) |
Ln own funds | =ln (the entrepreneur’s own funds when founding) |
Policy2 | =1 if the respondent ever used at least 1 of the six types of policies: fiscal, financial, land, infrastructure, human resources and green channel policy, =0 if otherwise |
Fiscal policy | =1 if the respondent ever used the fiscal policy, =0 if otherwise |
Financial policy | =1 if the respondent ever used the financial policy, =0 if otherwise |
Land policy | =1 if the respondent ever used the land policy, =0 if otherwise |
Infrastructure policy | =1 if the respondent ever used the infrastructure policy, =0 if otherwise |
Talent policy | =1 if the respondent ever used the talent policy, =0 if otherwise |
Green channel policy | =1 if the respondent ever used the green channel policy, =0 if otherwise |
Ln employees | =ln (number of employees at the time of the survey) |
Ln sales revenue | =ln (actual sales revenue in 2020) |
Ln profit before tax | =ln (actual profit before tax in 2020) |
