Table 2 Differences in the health between groups
From: Childhood migration experience and adult health: evidence from China’s rural migrants
Self-assessed health | Physical health | Mental health | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean (SD) | P | Mean (SD) | P | Mean (SD) | P | |
Childhood migration | ||||||
Yes (n = 569) | 3.9613 (0.8320) | 0.0000*** | 0.6731 (0.4695) | 0.0019*** | 15.6591 (2.8495) | 0.0710* |
No (n = 6466) | 3.7883 (0.7947) | 0.6089 (0.4880) | 15.4352 (2.6081) | |||
Migration distance | ||||||
Control group: no migration (n = 6466) | ||||||
cross-county migration in the same city (n = 419) | 3.9356 (0.8794) | 0.0009*** | 0.6850 (0.4651) | 0.0013*** | 15.5895 (2.9749) | 0.3007 |
cross-city migration in the same province (n = 75) | 4.1066 (0.6057) | 0.0000*** | 0.6400 (0.4832) | 0.5809 | 16.0400 (2.3100) | 0.0273** |
cross-province migration in the same country (n = 75) | 3.9600 (0.7433) | 0.0504* | 0.6400 (0.4832) | 0.5809 | 15.6667 (2.6115) | 0.4477 |
Gender | ||||||
Male (n = 2942) | 3.9534 (0.7280) | 0.0000*** | 0.5908 (0.4918) | 0.0007*** | 15.9112 (2.4531) | 0.0000*** |
Female (n = 4093) | 3.6936 (0.8298) | 0.6308 (0.4826) | 15.1241 (2.7012) | |||