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Based on the data from the detailed survey of small towns across China carried out by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in 2016, this chapter describes the characteristics of daily and non-daily travel of town and village residents from different perspectives. The clustering method is adopted to analyse village residents’ different types of lifestyles, and the OLS regression method is used to study the influence of four types of lifestyles on village residents’ travel frequency and time.
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Zhao, P., Lyu, D. (2022). Stories About Rural China. In: Lifestyle Change and Transport in China. Population, Regional Development and Transport. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4399-7_7
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