National Bureau of Statistics： 96.7% parents of migrant workers believe that their children are not discriminated against at school.

　　People’s Daily Online, Beijing, April 27 (Reporter Qin Boya) After selecting 8,890 villages and 237,000 rural laborers from 1,527 counties (districts) in rural areas of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) as survey samples, and conducting quarterly surveys in the form of household visits, the National Bureau of Statistics released the 2017 Migrant Workers Monitoring Survey Report on the 27th. According to the Report, 96.7% of migrant workers’ parents believe that their children are not discriminated against at school, but 55.8% of migrant workers’ parents report that their children in the compulsory education stage face problems such as high cost, difficulty in entering local schools, and no one to take care of their children.

　　The relevant contents of the Report are as follows:

　　The enrollment rate of children aged 3-5 (including preschool classes) was 83.3%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points over the previous year. Among the children aged 3-5, 26.7% are in public kindergartens, an increase of 1.3 percentage points over the previous year; More than 33.8% are inclusive private kindergartens, down 0.8 percentage points from the previous year.

　　The school attendance rate of migrant children of compulsory education age was 98.7%, which was basically the same as that of the previous year. According to the types of schools attended, 82.2% of migrant children of primary school age attended public schools, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over the previous year; 10.8% attended private schools funded by the government, an increase of 1.7 percentage points over the previous year. 85.9% of the children in junior middle school age are studying in public schools, an increase of 2.7 percentage points over the previous year; 9.7% attended private schools funded by the government, down 0.4 percentage points from the previous year.

　　96.7% parents of migrant workers believe that their children are not discriminated against at school, an increase of 0.3 percentage points over the previous year; 0.4% of migrant workers’ parents thought they were discriminated against, down 0.1 percentage points from the previous year; 2.9% parents of migrant workers don’t understand the situation, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous year. From the perspective of teachers, 77.3% of migrant workers’ parents are very satisfied with their teachers, which is 1.8 percentage points higher than the previous year. 21.9% thought it was average, down 1.6 percentage points from the previous year; Dissatisfied and very dissatisfied accounted for 0.8%, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous year.

　　For migrant children in the compulsory education stage, 55.8% parents of migrant workers reported that they faced some problems in going to school in cities, down 2.4 percentage points from the previous year. High cost, difficulty in local education and unattended children are the three main problems with the highest recognition rate of migrant workers’ parents, with the recognition rates of 26.4%, 24.4% and 23.8% respectively. Among them, the recognition rate of high cost and local difficulty in entering higher education decreased by 0.8 and 1.7 percentage points respectively compared with the previous year, and the recognition rate of children without care increased by 2.4 percentage points compared with the previous year.

　　For preschool children aged 3-5, 55.7% of migrant workers’ parents reported that they faced some problems in entering the park in cities, which was 5.7 percentage points lower than the previous year. High cost, difficulty in local education and unattended children are the three main problems with the highest recognition rate of migrant workers’ parents, which are 50.4%, 37.3% and 15.9%, respectively, down by 3.4, 5.9 and 0.9 percentage points from the previous year.