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Table 1 Basic information for major variables N = 9272

From: “Purchasing hope”: the consumption of children’s education in urban China

Categorical variables

Value

Percentage

Variables

Value

Percentage

Supplemental lessons

Attend

61.65

Parents’ occupation

White collar

26.88

Did not attend

38.35

Non-white collar

73.12

Curricular tutoring class

Attend

46.79

Family economic status

Wealthy

7.81

Did not attend

53.21

Medium

81.37

Art/sports interest class

Attend

37.97

Poor

10.81

Did not attend

62.03

Grade

Grade 9

46.00

The structure of residence

Living with both parents

74.48

Grade 7

54.00

Living with one parent/no parent

25.52

Boarding in school

Yes

11.03

Quantitative structure of children

Single-child family

59.99

No

88.98

The multiple-child family

40.01

Community type of school

Central city

62.63

Sex structure of children

Male

50.47

Non-central city

37.37

Female

49.53

Geographic location of school

East

61.45

Parents’ education level

College educated

30.59

Central

10.84

Non-college educated

69.41

West

27.71

Continuous variables

Mean

Standard deviation

Continuous variables

Mean

Standard deviation

Expense of supplemental education (yuan)

1883.039

4809.482

Factor of “parent-child affectionate interaction”

−9.55e−09

1

Parent-child accompany time (hour)

3.224

3.094

Parental education expectation

17.180

2.944