Open AccessThe role of parental education in child disability in China from 1987 to 2006
Author(s) -
Ping He,
Gong Chen,
Zhenjie Wang,
Chao Guo,
Xiaoying Zheng
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0186623
Subject(s) - china , demography , logit , paternal age , special education , logistic regression , educational attainment , psychology , medicine , geography , biology , statistics , genetics , political science , sociology , pregnancy , mathematics , mathematics education , archaeology , offspring , law
This paper aimed to investigate the role of parental education in child disability in China. We used nationally representative data from China’s National Sample Survey on Disability, iterated twice, in 1987 and 2006, with data of 764,718 children aged 0–14 years. Logit models were used for statistical analysis. Results showed that the prevalence of child disability was significantly associated with each parent’s education. Maternal education was more important than paternal education in child disability in both surveys. The analysis of marginal effect indicated a one-year increase in maternal and paternal schooling led to an average decrease of 0.121% and 0.091% in the probability of child disability in 1987, and 19 years later, these figures had dwindled to 0.091% and 0.072%, respectively.