Analysis on Migration Factors of Rural Worker in China

Abstract:

In former researches, the classification of the various indicators in the research of rural worker migration was pointed from the researchers’ subject views. This paper firstly investigated the available data of a series of application indexes related to the rural worker migration, using the method of principle component analysis (PCA), generally drew a conclusion on the affects of the migration dynamic factors divided into four main components, such as agricultural factor, demographic factor, economic factor, industry structure factor. Then we added 0-1 variables to the original target led by the method of logistic regression, finally obtained its results that agricultural factor and economic factor are the main dynamic factors of rural worker migration.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 219-220)
• Pages: 1597-1600
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.219-220.1597
• Online since: March 2011
• Authors: Wei Wang, Xue Song Liu, Tao Wang
• Keywords: Dynamic Factors, Migration, Rural Worker

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