Table 2 Child attendance of supplemental lessons (%)
From: “Purchasing hope”: the consumption of children’s education in urban China
Number of children | Gender | Supplemental lessons | Curricular tutoring class | Art/sports class | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Attend | Did not attend | Attend | Did not attend | Attend | Did not attend | ||
Single-child families (N = 5562) | Total | 69.65 | 30.35 | 54.87 | 45.13 | 42.90 | 57.10 |
Boys | 64.92 | 35.08 | 51.56 | 48.44 | 36.32 | 63.68 | |
Girls | 74.76 | 25.24 | 58.45 | 41.55 | 50.00 | 50.00 | |
Multi-child families (N = 3710) | Total | 49.65 | 50.35 | 34.66 | 65.34 | 30.59 | 69.41 |
Boys | 46.04 | 53.96 | 32.03 | 67.97 | 27.62 | 72.38 | |
Girls | 53.02 | 46.98 | 37.12 | 62.88 | 33.37 | 66.63 | |