An Analysis of Dropout in Rural Compulsory Education and Basic Conditions of Rural Households

The main purpose of this paper is concerned about childrens discontining study in ruralareas or dropout phenomena in rural childrens education, and their relationships with theeconomic condition of the rural households. The conclusion is that family income, parentseducation level and structure of family operations have cross-impact on the education of acountry child. To reduce the dropout rate of rural children, a key measure is to increasefarmers income, but income increase alone is not sufficient. It is argued that reducingdropout is a relatively long-term process that cannot be solved with shot-term governmentpolicy adjustment. To increase the rate of junior middle school education in rural areas, anoverall economic and social development in rural areas is necessary.