| A/national core sample | B/Shanghai | C/Floating population area | |||
| a1/Native | a2/Outsiders | b1/Native | b2/Outsiders | c1/Native | c2/Outsiders |
Language achievement | 70.38 | 71.31 | 70.32 | 71.87 | 70.22 | 71.34 |
| (9.80) | (9.17) | (9.07) | (9.72) | (9.90) | (9.00) |
Mathematical achievement | 70.27 | 70.89 | 70.49 | 70.63 | 70.26 | 71.17 |
| (9.89) | (9.30) | (9.67) | (8.82) | (9.92) | (9.02) |
Communication frequency | −0.29 | −0.10 | 0.39 | 0.43 | 0.43 | 0.22 |
| (0.88) | (0.97) | (0.77) | (0.77) | (0.91) | (0.92) |
Relationship evaluation | −0.05 | −0.08 | 0.16 | 0.33 | 0.08 | 0.1 |
| (0.94) | (0.93) | (0.95) | (0.87) | (1.01) | (0.93) |
Minority# | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.07 |
| (0.29) | (0.24) | (0.09) | (0.24) | (0.20) | (0.25) |
Male# | 0.48 | 0.51 | 0.49 | 0.44 | 0.48 | 0.48 |
| (0.50) | (0.50) | (0.50) | (0.50) | (0.50) | (0.50) |
Only child# | 0.35 | 0.31 | 0.87 | 0.53 | 0.7 | 0.35 |
| (0.48) | (0.46) | (0.33) | (0.50) | (0.46) | (0.48) |
Mother education level | 3.42 | 3.30 | 5.34 | 4.93 | 4.64 | 3.54 |
| (1.74) | (1.68) | (2.06) | (2.30) | (2.13) | (1.82) |
Father education level | 3.78 | 3.73 | 5.57 | 5.22 | 4.96 | 4 |
| (1.79) | (1.71) | (2.02) | (2.14) | (2.18) | (1.90) |
Family economic conditions | 2.87 | 2.95 | 3.2 | 3.27 | 3.11 | 3.08 |
| (0.54) | (0.49) | (0.50) | (0.50) | (0.51) | (0.42) |
School rankings | 3.97 | 3.93 | 3.96 | 3.89 | 4.06 | 3.56 |
| (0.75) | (0.77) | (0.50) | (0.54) | (0.93) | (0.98) |
Local student ratio | 0.93 | 0.76 | 0.68 | 0.61 | 0.78 | 0.62 |
| (0.10) | (0.19) | (0.15) | (0.11) | (0.14) | (0.20) |
Average local years of education | 8.80 | 9.61 | 10.73 | 10.84 | 10.52 | 10.59 |
| (1.15) | (1.14) | (0.47) | (0.42) | (1.07) | (1.17) |
Sample size | 3933 | 382 | 367 | 117 | 1884 | 550 |