- Qian, Y., & Qian, Z. (2014). The genderdivide in urban China: Singlehood and assortative mating by age and education. DemographicResearch, 31, 1337-1364.
Abstract 9
Objective
Chinese media labels highly educated, urban women whoare still single in their late 20s as “leftover ladies.” We investigate whetherindeed highly educated women are less likely to marry than their less educatedcounterparts, and how assortative mating patterns by age and education play arole in singleness.
在目标中首先用”剩女”这个概念,这是一个被广泛关注的话题,研究对象是一个有趣的群体。Weinvestigate 直接提出了要验证的目标,beless likely to marry than their less educated counterparts, 注意这个表达方法,都是讲女性,lesseducated counterparts是受教育程度低的女性,此外,assortativepatters by age and education 是一个简洁的表达方法,而它作为一个自变量去影响playa role in singleness 所以这个文章的聚焦点是leftoverwomen and singleness.
Methods
We use data from the urban samples of the ChineseGeneral Social Surveys in the 2000s. In the analysis we calculate marriagerates to examine the likelihood of entry into marriage, and then apply log-linearmodels to investigate the assertive mating patterns by age and education.
使用的数据,以及计算的重要因变量,thelikelihood of entry into marriage,因为这个变量是一个算是虚拟的变量,所以也算这篇文章的亮点吧,尽管我还没有把这个变量的计算方法搞清楚。Applylog-linear models 是使用的回归模型。
Results
We find that as education increases, the likelihood ofmarriage increase among men but decreases among women, especially among thoseover age 30. The results from log-linear models reveal that more marriageinvolve better educated, older men and less educated, younger women.
结果的叙述也是重复目标中的结论,只是使用了另外一种表达方式,educationincreases, the likelihood of marriage increase…..后面的log-linearmodels reveal that 表达有些晦涩,也是通常中国人用统计结果讲话的一种方式。Moremarriage involves ….有点怪,但是我能明白是啥意思。
Conclusions
We argue that persistent traditional gender roles, accompaniedby the rapid rise in women’s education, contribute to low marriage rates among older,highly educated women.
在结论部分,提出了persistenttraditional gender roles, accompanied by the rapid rise in women’s education , contributeto 剩女的问题。 算是对开始提剩女概念的一个回应。
以上就是传统的目的——数据——方法——结论的abstract方式。