Table 3 Summary of responses for clusters of educational trajectories by terminal nodes (%).

From: From “transitions” to “trajectories”: towards a holistic interactionistic analysis of educational inequality in contemporary China

Cluster/Leaf node

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

No.

N

%

Termination type of senior high school

Termination type of junior high school

Basic type of non-key middle school

Type of general education elite

Type of junior college

Type of technical schools/vocational high school

Type of special technical secondary school

Type of super education elite

Reversal type of provincial and municipal key high school

Type of local junior colleges

Type of prefecture undergraduate college and university

Type of part-time undergraduate university

Type of part-time junior college

Interrupted Type of vocational education

Reversal type of local key high school

Termination type of primary school

3

312

23.91

6.73

47.12

0.00

0.96

3.21

4.49

5.77

1.60

0.64

0.32

0.32

1.92

0.96

1.92

2.89

21.15

5

87

6.67

10.35

31.03

0.00

3.45

10.35

6.90

20.69

2.30

2.30

1.15

1.15

0.00

1.15

1.15

3.45

4.60

6

256

19.62

11.33

44.92

2.73

5.47

7.81

4.30

6.25

0.78

1.17

1.95

0.00

2.73

1.95

3.91

0.78

3.91

8

344

26.36

14.83

20.35

2.33

6.40

13.37

6.69

11.05

3.49

1.45

1.74

2.62

2.91

4.36

1.45

3.20

3.78

10

115

8.81

12.17

10.44

3.48

6.96

20.00

6.96

11.30

2.61

4.35

3.48

0.87

2.61

6.09

2.61

6.09

0.00

13

38

2.91

10.53

7.90

2.63

18.42

7.90

2.63

5.26

18.42

2.63

15.79

5.26

0.00

0.00

2.63

0.00

0.00

14

24

1.84

0.00

0.00

0.00

12.50

8.33

4.17

4.17

0.00

8.33

4.17

0.00

20.83

12.50

12.50

12.50

0.00

15

129

9.89

5.43

3.10

5.43

7.75

28.68

0.78

6.20

15.50

2.33

2.33

10.85

2.33

6.98

0.00

2.33

0.00

1305

100.00

10.34

28.97

2.07

5.36

11.49

4.98

8.74

3.91

1.76

2.07

2.15

2.61

3.30

2.22

2.91

7.13

  1. \({{\rm{\chi }}}_{{\rm{df}}=90}^{2}\) = 415.4, p < 0.001; C = 0.5430; V = 0.2640; λ = 0.0696 (column direction); \({{\rm{\tau }}}_{{\rm{A}}}\) = 0.0438 (column direction); λ = 0.0970 (row direction); \({{\rm{\tau }}}_{{\rm{A}}}\) = 0.0703 (row direction).