China Data

The List of Publicly Available China Data (ranked by their relevance to health-related studies)

China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

http://charls.pku.edu.cn/index/en.html

CHNS China Health and Nutrition Surveys The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine are pleased to announce the availability of data from the 1989, 1991, 1993 ,1997,2000, 2006 , 2008 China Health and Nutrition Survey, almost 5,000 households and 15,000 individuals in one of the best publicly available longitudinal data set, covers huge variety of outcomes in terms of economic and physically well being. http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/china/

Chinese longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey(CLHLS)

http://centerforaging.duke.edu/chinese-longitudinal-healthy-longevity-survey

China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)

http://www.isss.edu.cn/cfps/EN/

Chinese census

from China Data Online (http://www.chinadataonline.com) which is housed at UMich.

Asia Barometer Survey

http://www.asianbarometer.org/survey

The Chicago Council on global Affairs http://www.ccfr.org/pos_overview.php

Conducted on behalf of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, it measures the concerns of Americans regarding economic, political, and military engagement in foreign affairs. Conducted every four years from 1974 to 2002 and now biennially

Chinese General social survey, The China GSS is an annual or biannual questionnaire survey of China’s urban and rural households aiming to monitor systematically the changing relationship between social structure and quality of life in urban and rural China. The objectives of the China GSS are: (1) to gather longitudinal data on social trends; (2) to address issues of theoretical and practical significance; and (3) to serve as a global resource for the international scholarly community.

2003 survey now publicly available, 2004 and 2005 may come on line by Dec 2007. http://www.ust.hk/~websosc/survey/GSS_e.html also check

http://www.chinagss.org, but more recently need to go via Renda and pay

CHIP China Household Income Project www.icpsr.umich.edu Chinese Household Income Project, 1988 ,1995, 2002, 2007

Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary China, 1996 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da/lhsccs/chinaweb.html

Horizon ( biggest Chinese domestic survey research est 1992)

零点研究咨询集团 www.horizon-china.com

零点研究咨询集团目前国内最大的提供专业的策略性研究咨询服务的集团公司之一，致力于杰出本土企业和国际化企业提供专业调查咨询服务.

Michigan ICPSR program : Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to an extensive collection of downloadable data http://www.icpsr.umich.edu, a wide variety, below are 5 of the best known data sets from 1990s through 2000

The China Data Center at Michigan: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/chinadata/stat/

A few studies. Note that it has nothing to do with the China data center

LDS/Mormon Family History Library

17,100 zupu, most from Taiwan, but in addition full scanned records of local histories, land contracts, capital judgments, divorce

www.familysearch.org

help@productsupport.familysearch.org

area manager Dr. Melvin Thatcher thatchermp@gensocietyofutah.org

Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary China, 1996:

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da/lhsccs/chinaweb.html

Pew

They have survey data on China available, though it must be requested if it is not on their page

for direct download. Pew Global Attitudes Project Dataset Download

http://pewglobal.org/datasets/

Texas-A&M "1993 Survey on Social Mobility and Social Change" and "1988 Beijing

at TAMU's China Data archive

http://chinaarchive.tamu.edu/portal/site/chinaarchive

maybe In the near future : The China Survey

http://thechinasurvey.tamu.edu/person.htm

World Values survey

http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/index_surveys

[you need to search for China, and download the relevant files]

China Household Finance Survey (CHFS)

http://www.chfsdata.org/data/cn/usersLogin.aspx

My own data collection efforts in Guizhou China (IFPRI-CAAS)

https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/ecocxi/home/china-data/field-work

Other China Data Resources

China Data Online, China Info bank, Chinese Yearbooks full text data,

(only via Yale connections and limited number of Yale users at one time) http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian/

My book chapter that summarizes some main longitudinal datasets for China studies. https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/ecocxi/home/working-papers/published-articles/in-english/the-distribution-of-income-and-well-being-in-rural-china

Click here for a compiled list of China Data (by a professor at Xiamen University)