Questionnaire on Search Activities for a Marital Partner in Yunnan (QSAMPY), 2016

with Weiwei Ren, Jeanne Bovet, Paul Seabright and Charlotte Wang

Access the dataset on Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NJZHZC

This dataset contains survey data on marriage preferences and partner search behaviors collected from 832 respondents in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, between April and July 2016. The study was financed by the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), France, and conducted in cooperation with Yunnan Normal University. Data collection was carried out across two distinct locations to capture different search dynamics: Green Lake Park (549 observations): Collected on Saturdays at a local "marriage market." This sample primarily consists of parents or relatives searching on behalf of their unmarried adult children, along with some individuals searching for themselves. Yunnan Normal University (283 observations): Collected on campus to provide a comparative contrast sample consisting entirely of university students. Questionnaire Scope: The survey covers the demographics of respondents and the individuals they are searching for, the perceived importance of specific partner characteristics, motivations for marriage, and search duration/intensity. Note: This dataset contains all primary survey variables described in the data report except for the discrete profile-choice tasks, which are archived separately in their respective journal replication packages (Bovet et al., 2018; Raiber et al., 2023)  

This dataset is associated with two publications that use data from the profile-choice tasks included in the questionnaire. The data from these tasks are archived separately in the respective replication datasets:

Bovet, J., Raiber, E., Ren, W., Wang, C., & Seabright, P. (2018). Parent–offspring conflict over mate choice: An experimental study in China. British Journal of Psychology, 109(4), 674-693. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12319   

Replication dataset: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/87sccr2n7g/1 

Raiber, E., Ren, W., Bovet, J., Seabright, P., & Wang, C. (2023). What do parents want? Parental spousal preferences in China. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 71(3), 903-939.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/717903 

Replication dataset: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OJXCD4