Archive of computerised social science data for the People’s Republic of China. Open to the academic community, it aims to promote data-sharing in China studies and to serve the community with more quality datasets at lower costs. Since established in 1995, it has collected over twenty large and medium sized datasets from China, and it has served dozens of scholars from Hong Kong and abroad. Service is provided by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Datasets are supplied to users on written application, and on payment of usage fee. WWW site has application details

Datasets available include:

  • Privately-Owned Entreprisesin China – 1993, 1995, 1997
  • Survey on State-owned Enterprises, Collective-owned Urban Enterprises and Township-village Enterprises (1992)
  • Household Income Survey 1988 , 1995
  • Survey on the reform and efficiency of state-owned enterprises (1980-1994)
  • 1987 Survey on China’s Aged Population
  • Sampling Survey on Migration of 74 Cities and Towns in China 1986
  • Survey on Getihu in industry and commerce in China 1991
  • 1985 China In-depth Fertility Sample Survey
  • The Chinese General Social Survey 1993
  • Survey on Cultural Quality of the Chinese Residents (1994)
  • Affluent Counties Indicator (1991)
  • The 1982 Population Census of the People’s Republic of China
  • 1992 Survey on the Support System for the Elderly in China
  • 1987 Second China In-depth Fertility Sample Survey
  • Women’s Status in Contemporary China (1991)
  • Urban Household Survey, from 1986 to 1992
  • Survey of Shenzhen workforce – 1996
  • The Economics Geography of Fujian (Cornell East Asia Series)
  • Survey on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Jiangsu Province
  • Shandong Rural Social and Economic Statistics by County in 1994
  • Real Estate Development in Shandong in 1995
  • Shanxi Social and Economic Statistics by County, from 1949 to 1993
  • 1990 Survey on the Large and Medium Sized State-Owned Entreprises in Tianjin
  • 1985 Household Survey of Tianjin
  • Survey of Shanghai workforce – 1996
  • 1992 National Sample Survey on the Situation of Children
  • 1988 National Sample Survey on Fertility and Contraception (NSSFC)
  • 1992 Fertility Sampling Survey in China
  • The 1982 National One-per-thousand Population Sample Survey on Fertility
  • Privately-Owned Entreprises in China – 1991

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