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Table 1 Definitions and descriptive statistics of main variables

From: How do urban public health services affect rural migrant women's fertility intentions? A study based on the Mobile Population Dynamics Monitoring Survey in China

variable

definition

average value

standard deviation

Interpreted variables

fertility intentions

Whether the respondents have any plans to have children this year and next: yes = 1, no = 0

0.106

0.308

Explanatory variables

Health records

Whether the respondent has established a local health record: yes = 1, no = 0

0.299

0.458

Health education

Number of health education received by respondents in their current villages (residences) in one year (items)

2.075

1.827

Covariates

age

Respondent's age (years)

34.767

7.502

Educational attainment

Respondents' academic qualifications: high school/technical secondary school and above = 1, otherwise = 0

0.318

0.466

Political identity

Whether the interviewee is a Member of the Communist Party: yes = 1, no = 0

0.023

0.149

marital status

Marital status of respondents: first marriage = 1, remarriage = 0

0.972

0.164

Employment status

Whether the respondents had worked for more than one hour with income in the week before May Day: yes = 1, no = 0

0.74

0.439

Whether to participate in the town health insurance

Whether the respondents participated in urban resident medical insurance, urban workers' medical insurance, or publicly funded medical care: yes = 1, no = 0

0.224

0.417

Number of children

Number of biological children of the respondents

1.505

0.726

The nature of the spouse's household registration

Whether the interviewee's spouse is an agricultural household registration: yes = 1, no = 0

0.098

0.297

Ethnic characteristics of the family

Whether the respondent and any of his or her spouses are ethnic minorities: yes = 1, no = 0

0.116

0.319

Household income level

The natural logarithm of the average monthly gross household income of the respondents

10.213

0.166

Family housing burden

Respondent households spend an average monthly housing expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure (%)

21.6

20.5

Range of flow

Whether the respondents were on inter-provincial mobility: yes = 1, no = 0

0.520

0.499

The length of residence in the place of inflow

Length of residence in the place of inflow (years)

6.492

5.383

Mechanism variables

Health status

Whether the respondent was sick (injured) or unwell within one year: yes = 0, no = 1

0.878

0.327

Willingness to stay

Whether the respondent intends to stay in the local area for 5 years or more: yes = 1, no = 0

0.634

0.482