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A Stratified Study of the Sports Participation of Mi-

grant Students 

By Liu, M. 
Correspondence to: Liu, M., Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 210094. Email: liumina@njust.edu.cn  

N the basis of the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), a study pub-

lished in China Sport Science analyzed the sports participation situation 

of migrant children in urban and rural areas. A total of 1602 migrant chil-

dren’s samples were collected and the results are as follows: 

 According to the descriptive statistics, the average time of mi-

grant students’ daily physical exercise in junior middle school just 

reached 24.41 minutes, which was seriously insufficient. The in-

ternal differentiation of migrant children is serious, to be specific, 

the difference between urban areas and rural areas, family classes 

are extremely significant. 

 The regression analysis found that, in terms of demographic char-

acteristics, gender inequality exists, and boys participate in physi-

cal exercises more than girls, but whether the individual is the on-

ly child in his or her family did not have an impact. As for the ur-

ban and rural areas, the difference in physical exercise participa-

tion was determined by the living communities, school attended, 

and family status. Compared with traditional and village-mixing 

communities, students living in commercial residential buildings 

with better community environments participate more in sports. 

In terms of family effect, family cultural capital plays a signifi-

cant role. The longer education years of the mothers, the more 

collection of books within the family, the better the situation of 

migrant children’s sports participation will be. 

 Considering the differences between urban and rural students, the 

researchers conducted a sample regression for the two, and the re-

sults show that there exists a significant difference in the stratifi-

cation mechanism of the two groups. The stratification tendency 

of urban migrant children only relates to schools, while rural mi-

grant children’s tendency diversified in schools, families, and 

communities, which indicates that both the stratification and ine-

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quality degree rural migrant children are higher than the urban 

migrant children. 

Broadly speaking, the researchers suggest that to promote the 

sports participation of migrant children in junior high schools, on the 

one hand, it is necessary to jointly formulate a balanced development 

of sports policies, as well as supporting education and urban planning 

policies. On the other hand, it is also important to increase the cultural 

capital of migrant children’s families in order to improve the inequali-

ty of sports participation caused by social transformation and social 

structural division. 

 

Source: China Sport Science, 2020; 40(12):39-53.