This journal is one of the earliest journals on population science in China. It is issued worldwide and indexed by CSSCI, and it is listed as the national Chinese core periodicaland the core periodical on population science.
Editor-in-Chief Yu Xiao
Deputy Editor-in-Chief Wang Xiaofeng, Wang Huabo
Editorial Board Wang Guangzhou, Wang Jinying, Yi Hao, Tian Yipeng, Sun Changzhi, Zhu Yu, Zhang Shiwei, Qiu Hong, Lu Jiehua, Chen Yingzi, Li Shuzhuo, Fan Lida, Yang Chenggang, Yang
With the accelerating process of urbanization, inter-provincial migration has become the focus of our society. Since 2000, the form of migration has been transformed from individual migration to family migration in Northeast China. There are few empirical studies on family migration in Northeast China. Based on the floating population dynamic monitoring data in 2015, this paper makes a quantitative analysis on the development trend of family migration based on family structure, settlement intention, family migration mode, migration level and influencing factors. The research shows that factors such as the stability of family structure of inter-provincial migration, the growth of inflow family income and the strengthening of settlement will bring different characteristics to both family migration process and mode. In the process of family migration, Heilongjiang has the largest proportion of inter-provincial migrants. The older the migrants in the three provinces are, the longer the time of out-migration is, the higher the income level of family members is, and the higher the level of family migration is. On the whole, the article is a policy orientation for the northeast population to migrate in a positive direction. The government should establish social family services for migrants, comply with the social law, emphasize the consciousness of the main responsibility, and deepen the policy reform.
Population quality is a symbol of social civilization, which includes physical quality, scientific and cultural quality and ideological and moral standards. The physical quality is the material basis and an important manifestation of the population quality. Through the statistical analysis on the physical quality of college students in the nearly 30 years, we find that in terms of body shape, the height of college students has increased, but the ratio of overweight and obesity has been rising; in terms of bodily function, vital capacity continues to decline and is at a low level; in terms of athletic quality, the quality of speed, sensitivity, strength, endurance and other qualities continue to decline, of which the strength and endurance decline in quality. The factors that affect the physical quality of college students are psychological factors, behavioral factors and environmental factors. These factors interact with each other directly or indirectly and affect the development of population physical quality. In combination with the ecology system model that affects the physical quality of the population, we analyze the trend of college students’ physical fitness. We think that the inertial examination education weakens the training of students and their parents; the transformation of school PE teaching concept makes the school physical education emphasize entertainment rather than physical training; overuse of the Internet makes students sedentary and less moving; school public health services are inadequate, and cannot provide comprehensive and effective service products; special ways of rearing single child, result in excessively spoiled family education. These are the causes of the contemporary college population physical problems. In order to enhance the physical quality of college students, we should gradually improve the health public service system, strengthen the physical quality, promote the coordination of related policies, promote the implementation of policies and regulations, and strengthen the college students’ health literacy education.
With the accelerating aging process of the population, the middle-aged and elderly people will become an important component of China’s population. Their health status should be given the special attention. Moreover, the health promotion work should be started from the middle-aged and elderly people. Based on the data from Chinese and Japanese Family Health Program in 2011 and 2015, this paper addresses the effect of the health intervention on health knowledge, attitude and practice of the middle-aged and elderly people in rural China using logistic regression analysis and calculates the net effect of health intervention using difference-in-difference method. The results show that, after receiving the health intervention, the middle-aged and elderly people improved their health knowledge, attitude and practice. Health intervention achieves good effect on the middle-aged and elderly people, which increases the probability of knowing blood pressure and diabetes by 29.3% and 20.3% respectively, probability of agreeing the check-ups regularly and nutrition arrangement by 10.9% and 19.1% respectively, and probability of attending physical examination recently and manual work by 20.6% and 7.9% respectively, while controlling other relevant variables. Health intervention achieves the more significant effects on health knowledge, attitude and practice among the middle-aged and elderly people with higher education level, better self-rated health status and in marriage. Therefore, as a valuable exploration on the health care sector integration, the health intervention program fully complies with the requirements of the “Healthy China 2030” and enhances the health of the rural elderly. In order to improve the health level of middle-aged and elderly people and ensure their quality of later life, health intervention program needs to give full consideration to carrying out targeted health intervention in the future.
Early literature turns out that the patterns of social supports of the elderly in Western nations are quite different from those of Chinese elderly, which indicates that more social supports for the Chinese elderly that depend mainly on their children and relatives. However, accompanied with the process of modernization and industrialization, the traditional patterns of social supports of the Chinese elderly have changed. Based on the literature review, this paper employs the Chinese Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS) data to identify the current patterns of social support and its determinants by using the ordinal logistic regression model.Our major findings include the followings: at present, the pattern of care demands of the Chinese elderly is changing, and the patterns of socialized care and transitional care are being accepted by some elderly people. But the family-based traditional care pattern is still the dominant, which is significantly affected by the family intergeneration support. Those who have two or more living children prefer to choose the traditional care pattern, and those who have no surviving child or have only one child prefer the socialized care pattern. The elderly care demands are also constrained by the financial condition. The elderly who have the poor economic conditions and no living child or only one living child would face difficulties. In addition, self-rated health and the traditional filial piety value also have effects on the elderly care demand pattern. The regional dimension showed significant effects on the elderly care mode of progressive, from the west to the central region, then to the east, and then to the northeast. it gradually shows the acceptance of the combination of family and socialized care.
This paper aims to examine trends in age difference and educational match of first-married spouses aged 18–59 years old in China from 1975 to 2014, using the data from 2014 Family Dynamics Survey of China organized by National Health and Family Planning Commission of China. The results reveals that the traditional marriage mode of “older husband matching younger wife” is still the main trend in marriage age match of first-married spouses, ranging from “husband one year younger than wife” to “husband four years older than wife,” while the average value of average age difference (absolute value) of first-married spouses is on the rise both in rural and urban areas. And the more educated the first-married spouses are, the more likely they will find their spouses with the same or similar age. In regarding to educational match, educational homogeneity and educational heterogeneity of “higher husband matching lower wife” are still main educational match mode of first-married spouses. Due to influencing factors such as the popularization of education, enrollment expansion of universities, the rising social and economic status of women and the implementation of gender equality, women’s educational level has been continuously improved, which steadily narrows the gap of education between men and women. Thus the educational heterogeneous mode of “higher husband matching lower wife” gradually declines, while the mode of educational homogeneity increases. In other words, first-married spouses’ educational level becomes increasingly similar. The results also indicate the more educated spouses are more likely to marry those with a similar educational level. However, the possibility and preference of women to choose their spouses with a higher educational attainment is getting smaller and smaller. Besides, the access to education is imbalanced in urban and rural areas, and among regions, among which there also exists gender disparity in education. The increase of educational homogeneity and the decrease of educational heterogeneity modes of “higher husband matching lower wife” make it more difficult for the less educated people to realize social mobility through marriage. In particular, rural males with lower educational level may face severe difficulties in choosing a spouse.
