On Construction of Rural Migrant Workers’ Social Integration Indicator System—An Empirical Analysis on Surveyed Data in 2016 based on Structural Equation Modeling

Abstract

Social integration of rural migrant workers (RMWs) is a comprehensive, systematic and challenging problem. In this paper, the author will, based on the surveyed data of Chinese RMWs in 2016, adopt the Quantitative Grading Method to conduct a correlation analysis on occupation integration, livelihood integration, cultural integration, and identity, and construct the RMWs' social integration indicator system through the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The study shows that the SEM constructed in this paper matches well the features of the sample. Most indicators (dimensions) in the RMWs' social integration indicator system exert a significant one-way impact, and different indicators (content) bear features of interactivity and layered progress, which conforms to the basic situation and features of RMWs' social integration in reality, and proves the different aspects of integration of RMWs is interconnected, correlative, interactive, and it is a consistent and dialectical unity.