China's Floating Population: New Evidence from the 2000 Census

By Zai Liang, Zhongdong Ma. 2004

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China (2008, unknown): “Estimates using the one percent sample from the 1990 and 2000 rounds of the Population Census and the 1995 one percent population survey suggest that the inter-county migrant population grew from just over 20 million in 1990 to 45 million in 1995 and 79 million by 2000 (Liang and Ma, 2004).”
• Intergenerational Ties in Context: Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China (2011, background): “Starting in the 1980s, massive rural to urban migration resulted in a sizeable “floating population” (“temporary” migrants) that reached nearly 79 million by the 2000 Census estimate (Liang and Ma 2004).”
• Left behind to farm ? women's labor re-allocation in rural China (2009, background): “Rapidly increasing migration throughout the economic reform period has been associated with economic growth (for example, see Liang and Ma, 2004; Fan, 2008).”
• Urban land expansion and the floating population in China: For production or for living? (2017, background): “Among them, those who have no formal qualifications for city residency are called “floating population”, or liudong renkou (Liang & Ma, 2004).”
• Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China (2012, unknown): “5 The magnitudes are immense: The 2000 census counted 124.6 million internal migrants (Liang & Ma, 2004) or about 17% of the labor force (Taylor, Rozelle, & de Brauw, 2003), up from less than 5% in 1988 and some 10% in 1995 (Rozelle, Li, Shen, Hughart, & Giles, 1999).”
• THE URBAN–RURAL INCOME GAP AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA (2007, unknown): “Using data from China’s 2000 census, in which efforts were made to count migrants in their place of residence, Liang and Ma (2004) estimate that in 2000 the migrant population resident in cities was equal to 13 per cent of the urban population.16 This estimate includes urban-to-urban migrant…”
• The Household Registration System and Rural-Urban Educational Inequality in Contemporary China (2011, unknown): “The effects of social origin on educational stratification, after the initial decline, increased in the late years of socialism, reaching a level at least comparable to that in Western societies (Shavit and Blossfeld 1993).”