Table 1 Demographics of Participants.

From: The role of parent–child communication on Chinese rural left-behind children’s educational expectation: a moderated mediation analysis

Demographic characteristics

Frequency (N = 2275)

Percentage (%)

Gender

 Male

1125

50.6

 Female

1099

49.4

Age

 12

63

2.8

 13

1009

45.2

 14

938

42.1

 15

187

8.4

 16

31

1.4

 17

1

0.04

 18

1

0.04

Single child status

 Single child

612

26.9

 Non-single child

1663

73.1

Left-behind status (no. of residing parent)

 0

330

14.5

 1

297

13.1

 2

1648

72.4