Research Article

Impact of Livelihood Assets on Farmland-Transferred Households’ Willingness to Urbanism and Policies Implications for Farmland Transfer: Evidence from Zhejiang, China

Table 1

Selected variables used in SEM.

Latent variablesManifest variablesDefinition

Farmland transfer
 Benefit of farmland transfer (BFT)Transfer income (TI)Income of farmland transfer
Transfer area (TA)Area of transferred farmland
 Openness in farmland transfer (OFT)Transferee (TF)Transferee of farmland
Farmland transfer tenure (FT)The period of time that farmland is used by transferee
Willingness to urbanism
 Willingness to urbanism (UI)Urbanization type (UT)Urbanization type of household
Migration region (MR)The region that the household migrates in
Livelihood assets
 Natural capital (NC)Farmland area (NC1)Area of farmland belonged to the household
High quality farmland (NC2)Area of high quality farmland belonged to the household
 Human capital (HC)Education level (HC1)Years of education completed of the head of household
Labour force (HC2)Number of labour force in the household
Health status (HC3)Health status of the household head
 Physical capital (PC)Residential quantity (PC1)Number of residential buildings belonged to the household
Residential quality (PC2)Residential quality of household
Public transportation (PC3)Distance between residential house and bus passenger station
 Financial capital (FC)Non-agricultural income (FC1)Non-agricultural income of household last year
Capacity to borrow (FC2)Difficulty level of borrowing money
 Social capital (SC)Relationship with friends (SC1)Relationship between household and friends
Relationship with relatives (SC2)Relationship between household and relatives
Relationship with village cadres (SC3)Relationship between household and village cadres