Migrating Together or Staying Behind? An Empirical Research on Household Arrangement during Rural-urban Migration

外出家庭化是中国城乡人口流动的一个重要趋势，但以往研究因为缺乏对家庭边界的明确定义及采用流入地调查数据等缺陷，未能提供对当今农村劳动力家庭外出—留守安排各类型分布的可靠描述。本研究基于中国家庭追踪调查，描述了中国农村丈夫单方外出、妻子单方外出、夫妻同地外出、异地外出及其子女外出或留守安排的分布，并在此基础上分三种外出决策情境重点探讨了夫妻特征和家庭结构等因素与夫妻外出安排的关系。

It is an emerging trend for China’s rural-urban migration that rural laborers migrate with their spouse and children rather than migrating alone. Due to the lack of representative national samples for the migrant population, previous studies fail to estimate the prevalence of different types of household arrangements during migration. Based on data collected by the China Family Panel Studies, this paper describes the distribution of various types of family migration, including the husband migrating alone, the wife migrating alone, the couple migrating to different destinations, and the couple migrating to the same destination. This study also explores how different decisions on migration made between the couples are associated with their social-demographic characteristics and the structure of their original families in the rural area under three hypothesized decision-making scenarios.

李代、张春泥

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