Table 1 Descriptive statistics.
From: Offline social capital, online social capital, and fertility intentions: evidence from China
Variables | Mean | S.D. | Min | Max | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fertility intention | 1.851 | 0.617 | 0 | 3 | No children = 0, one child = 1, two children = 2, three or more children = 3 |
Trust | 0.621 | 0.485 | 0 | 1 | Strongly disagree, relatively disagree, neutral = 0, relatively agree, strongly agree = 1 |
Network | 0.576 | 0.494 | 0 | 1 | Never, rarely = 0, sometimes, often, always = 1 |
Online | 0.683 | 0.465 | 0 | 1 | Never, rarely, = 0, sometimes, often, always = 1 |
Gender | 0.468 | 0.499 | 0 | 1 | Male = 1, female = 0 |
Age | 42.273 | 11.465 | 18 | 60 | Age of respondents in 2017 |
Education | 1.854 | 1.1 | 1 | 4 | Junior high school and below = 1, senior high school = 2, junior college = 3, university degree or above = 4 |
Hukou | 0.555 | 0.497 | 0 | 1 | Urban = 0, rural = 1 |
Marital status | 0.817 | 0.387 | 0 | 1 | Unmarried, separated without divorce, divorced, and widowed = 0, cohabitation, married with a spouse = 1 |
Health | 3.69 | 1.035 | 1 | 5 | Very unhealthy = 1, relatively unhealthy = 2, general = 3, relatively healthy = 4, very healthy = 5 |
Work | 32.212 | 28.079 | 0 | 100 | Continuous variable |
Medical insurance | 0.933 | 0.25 | 0 | 1 | No = 0, yes = l |
Pension insurance | 0.699 | 0.459 | 0 | 1 | No = 0, yes = l |
Children | 0.838 | 0.369 | 0 | 1 | No = 0, yes = l |
Son ratio | 0.465 | 0.43 | 0 | 1 | Continuous variable |
Family income | 86025.654 | 108548.809 | 0 | 700000 | Continuous variable |
Middle | 0.222 | 0.416 | 0 | 1 | Dummy variable |
East | 0.405 | 0.491 | 0 | 1 | Dummy variable |
Northeast | 0.129 | 0.336 | 0 | 1 | Dummy variable |
