Four Portraits of the Differentiation of Z Generation Youth's Views on Marriage and Love— K-means Clustering Analysis Based on Questionnaire
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18063/lne.v3i6.1155Keywords:
Generation Z youth, Marriage attitude, Cluster analysis, Marriage intentionAbstract
This paper uses the questionnaire survey method to understand the real marriage attitude of Generation Z youth, and uses the questionnaire data to carry out K-Means cluster analysis. It draws the four major ethnic groups and characteristics of the current generation Z youth who are not married, and puts forward feasible suggestions from macro and micro perspectives. It provides a new classification perspective for the study of current marital status in China. In order to promote a better solution to the problem that Chinese youth do not have a strong desire to marry.
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