Table 1 Variable definition.
Variables | Definition |
|---|---|
SSS | Individual’s subjective social status, with 1 representing the lowest level and 10 representing the highest level. |
SFES | Individual’s subjective family economic status. 1 = well-below average; 2 = below average; 3 = average; 4 = above average; 5 = well-above average. |
migrant | 1 = migrant; 0 = urban native. |
pbm | 1 = policy-based migrant; 0 = others. |
smm | 1 = self-motivated migrant; 0 = others. |
age | Age of the respondent. |
agesq | Age square. |
gender | 1 = male; 0 = female. |
house | The number of house properties owned by the household. |
cpc | 1 = membership of Communist Party of China; 0 = others. |
marriage | 1 = unmarried; 2 = cohabitation; 3 = unmarried. |
minzu | 1 = ethnic Han; 0 = others. |
social | Individual’s frequency of socializing: 1 = never; 2 = seldom; 3 = sometimes; 4 = often; 5 = always. |
fairness | Perceived social fairness: 1 = totally unfair; 2 = relative unfair; 3 = neither unfair nor fair; 4 = relative fair; 5 = totally fair. |
medu | Mother’s degree of education: 0 = obtaining no school education, old-style private school or literacy class; 1 = primary school; 2 = middle school; 3 = high school, technical school and junior college; 4 = bachelor and above. |
fedu | Father’s degree of education: 0 = obtaining no school education, old-style private school or literacy class; 1 = primary school; 2 = middle school; 3 = high school, technical school and junior college; 4 = bachelor and above. |
income | The logarithm of “household annual income plus one”. |
edu | Individual’s degree of education: 0 = obtaining no school education, old-style private school or literacy class; 1 = primary school; 2 = middle school; 3 = high school, technical school and junior college; 4 = bachelor and above. |
ca | Cognitive ability, with a higher value representing better ability to speak and listen Mandarin and Englisha. |
health | Self-rated health: 1 = very bad health; 2 = relatively bad health; 3 = neither good nor bad; 4 = relatively good health; 5 = very good health. |
mentalhealth | Self-rated frequency of depression and upset over the past four weeks: 1 = always; 2 = often; 3 = sometimes; 4 = seldom; 5 = never. |
