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Figure 10.5 Age composition of migrant children and rural left-behind children, 2010

10/01/2015

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Source:
Duan Chengrong et al., estimation based on the 2010 Population Census conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics

Figure 10.5
Number of migrant children was evenly distributed across age except for children less than one year old and children aged 15-17. Many migrant children are confronted with challenges to quality education and face difficulties in affordable healthcare services. Receiving cities should concretely consider and respond to the needs of migrant children in overall education and healthcare planning. Some 36 per cent of migrant children are between 15-17 years of age. Most of them attend school, but quite a few of them abandon senior secondary education to become new-generation migrant workers and face the challenges of the migrant population, including the issue of social exclusion. Proportions of rural left-behind children for each age group were close to each other. 

上一篇:Figure 10.4 Number of left-behind children in rural areas, 2010
下一篇:Figure 10.6 Sex ratio of migrant children and rural left-behind children, 2010

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