Table 1.
Structure of China’s administrative divisions (Ministry of Civil Affairs, 2018).
Table 2.
Geographical distribution of the teacher sample.
Table 3.
General demographic characteristics.
Fig 1.
Percentage of teachers in terms of age by school location and geographical region.
Fig 2.
Percentage of male teachers by age.
Fig 3.
Percentage of male and female teachers in terms of age in county, town, and village schools.
Table 4.
Distribution of the teachers by geographical region and gender.
Table 5.
Professional characteristics of the total sample.
Fig 4.
Percentage of teachers in terms of age and years of teaching.
Table 6.
Initial diploma by age, school location, and geographic regions.
Table 7.
Distribution of first and final major of the participants.
Table 8.
Teachers’ income by total sample, school location, geographic region, and intervals of years in teaching career.
Table 9.
Scores on scale variables of attitudes towards work and variance explained at school level.
Table 10.
Scores on selected scale variables of attitudes towards work by school location.