Table 1 Selection and quantitative measures of variable factors.

From: Patterns of spatial concentration and drivers of China’s migrant population: evidence from the Greater Bay Area hinterland

Dimension

Influencing factors

Interpretation and calculation method

Industry scale

Total numbers of various types of enterprises (X1)

All registered enterprises and self-employed businesses in a community/administrative village (number)

 

Number of industrial enterprises (X2)

Number of industrial enterprises in a community/administrative village (number)

Economic level

Total assets(X3)

Total assets of a community/administrative village (10,000 yuan)

 

Net operating incomes of grassroots governance units (X4)

Net operating income of a community/administrative village (10,000 yuan)

 

Transaction prices of commercial housing (X5)

Average unit price of preowned commercial housing in communities/administrative villages, 2021 (yuan/m2)

 

Industrial land price (X6)

Benchmark industrial land price of state-owned construction land, 2019 (yuan/m2)

Regional advantage

Shortest network distance from each community/administrative village to the administrative boundary of Shenzhen (X7)

Shortest network distance from each community/administrative village to the administrative boundary of Shenzhen (km)

 

Shortest travel time from each community/administrative village to the administrative boundary of Shenzhen (X8)

Shortest travel time from each community/administrative village to the administrative boundary of Shenzhen (min)

Land use structure

Proportion of industrial land (X9)

Proportion of industrial land area in a community/administrative village to the total area of the community/administrative village (%)

 

Land use diversity(X10)

Distribution of different land use types in a community/administrative village

\(H=-{\sum }_{i=1}^{n}{p}_{i}\log ({p}_{i})\)