Table 3 Characteristics of sampled household (mean ± SD).

From: Residents’ future residential preference and its affecting factors in the rapid urbanization zone of rural China from a family life cycle perspective

Villages

Age of household head (years)

Education of household head (years)

Number of homesteads owned

Household annual income (1000 USD)

Family life cycle stages

Zhangzhuang

54.28 ± 14.44a

7.85 ± 3.54

1.38 ± 0.54bc

12.51 ± 23.86

1.99 ± 1.19

Qianliucun

49.80 ± 13.32b

7.84 ± 3.37

1.16 ± 0.45c

11.82 ± 22.04

2.47 ± 1.10

Lihusi

52.23 ± 13.11ab

7.46 ± 3.60

1.44 ± 0.56b

10.91 ± 19.68

2.43 ± 1.17

Beishizhuang

50.65 ± 13.13ab

7.55 ± 3.87

1.73 ± 2.05a

10.35 ± 15.86

2.79 ± 1.36

Mean

51.40 ± 13.51

7.68 ± 3.55

1.37 ± 0.92

11.08 ± 20.96

2.45 ± 1.16

  1. Note: Family life cycle stages: 1, initial stage; 2, burden stage; 3, stable stage; 4, maintenance stage; 5, empty nest stage. Different letters within a column indicate statistically differences at p < 0.05, Tukey’s post-hoc tests: (a > b > c). “a”, “b” and “c” represent different groups of means, and the alphabetical order reflects the ranking of the means from highest to lowest, “ab”, “bc” and “ac” indicated that the difference between the corresponding groups did not reach a significant level (p ≥ 0.05).
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