Floating population includes more women

时间：2007-11-07 06:35:52

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Chinanews, Beijing, Nov. 7 – A recent survey shows that in Beijing, women make up a larger and larger part of the floating population nowadays. While a lot of men went out to find a job in the previous years, today the husband and the wife prefer to work out together, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

 

The survey was done based on a random1 investigation2 carried out last year. In that investigation, 1‰ of the floating population were chosen as the samplings for the survey.

 

The survey, published in the latest issue of Population Research magazine, was completed by Zhai Zhenwu, a professor at the Population Studies Center at the Renmin University of China, together with his colleagues. In order to complete the survey, they issued 4,078 questionnaires to migrant workers and 715 questionnaires to landlords or landladies3 who leased houses to migrant workers.

 

The survey shows that in Beijing, the gender4 ratio among migrant workers is 123, with more migrant workers being male. If one compares the gender ratio changes occurring during the past decade, one can find that over the past ten years, more and more women joined the floating population group. In 1997, the gender ratio among migrant workers was 173. Last year, it was reduced to 123.

 

In addition, children take up a larger proportion now than before in the floating population. In 1997, children accounted for 6.7% of the floating population in Beijing, and in 2006, their proportion had risen to 14.2%, which was twice the percentage point a decade ago.

 
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1 random HT9xd     
adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
参考例句：
  • The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。
2 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查，调查研究
参考例句：
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 landladies 9460cc0128a0dc03a9135025652719dc     
n.女房东，女店主，女地主( landlady的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The landladies paid court to her, in the obsequious way landladies have. 女店主们以她们特有的谄媚方式向她献殷勤。 来自辞典例句
4 gender slSyD     
n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性
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  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

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