1. Dali L. Yang The University of Chicago
China’s Children and Youth Education, Development, and Value Orientations
Dali L. Yang
The University of Chicago

3. China steadily improves
Life Expectancy: China, Japan, and the United States
China steadily improves

6. China Quarterly 2016

7. Why the stark contrast?
PISA: Program for International Student Assessment
China: represented by the provinces of Beijing (21.5), Shanghai (24.2), Jiangsu (84.3), and Guangdong 104)
Total population 2016: 234 million
Map:

8. 1960
1960
1990

9. Project on China’s Children and Youth
China Family Panel Studies, 2010
Representative sampling of 25 provinces (95% of population)
All members over age 9 in a sampled household are interviewed
Sample sizes for 2010 shown here
The State of Children in China
Lijun Chen, Qiang Ren, Dali Yang, 2016
Events in recent years
Xi Jinping became General Secretary of CCP Central Committee in 2012
Builds on growing social policy commitments: education, health, welfare
Xi Calls for bringing all above current poverty line by 2020
19th CCP National Congress, October 2017
Second phase of project: on China’s Children and Youth
Lijun Chen, Dali Yang, Di Zhou, and Qiang Ren
Internship for undergraduate students

10. Sample Evaluation and Population Representativeness Gender-Age Population Pyramids

11. Indicators of Economic Wellbeing

13. Class sizes are large; health insurance coverage improved significantly

14. School Enrollment Status:
Survey Results Contrast with Official Statistics

15. China: Primary School Enrollment and Number of Primary Schools

16. Table 6.2. Change in Child Schooling between 2010 and 2014
Community Type
Total
Variables
Rural
Urban
Percent
In Kindergarten (age 3-5)*
+10.6
-0.7
+8.0
In School (age 6-15) *
+3.2
+3.4
+3.3
In Boarding School (10-15)*
+6.7
+4.0
+4.9
Aspire for college degree (10-15)*
-0.3
+2.6
Note: * p < .05 based on design-based Pearson chi square statistic.