<html> <head> <title>China Data & Statistics</title> </head> <body bgcolor=#F2F2F2 link="#3B9C9C" alink="#3B9C9C" vlink="grey"> <center> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"> University of Toronto. Data Library Service <br> <br> <font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="black"> *** Off-campus University of Toronto users login to <a href="http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca:80/login?url=http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/other/findints.htm">myaccess</a> first! ***</b> <p align=center> <font face="Tahoma" size="5"> <b>Finding China Data & Statistics</b> </font> <hr color="#3B9C9C" size=4> </p> <center> <b>Jump to:</b> <a href="aggregate">Aggregate/Time Series Data</a> <a href="microdata">Microdata/Time Series Data</a> <a href="other">Other Resources</a> <br> <br> <p> <font size="2"> <p align="left"> <b>Note:</b> When looking for and analyzing data and statistics on China, make sure to check what regions are covered. "China" can include the People's Republic of China (PRC, Mainland), Hong Kong, Macau, and/or Taiwan, depending on the source. <br> <p align="left"> <font size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#3B9C9C"> <a name="aggregate">Aggregate / Time Series </a> <hr width = 300 align=left color="grey"> </font> </p> <ul> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Asian Development Bank</b><br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.adb.org/Statistics/default.asp">http://www.adb.org/Statistics/default.asp</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description: </b> Annual indicators (1990 to most recent) including population, labour force, national accounts, production, energy, price indexes, money and banking, government finance, external trade, balance of payments, international reserves, exchange rates, external indebtedness; and Millenium Development Goals statistical tables (most recent) including poverty, education, and health. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Bureau of Economic Analysis International Economic Accounts</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.bea.gov/international/">http://www.bea.gov/international/</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level <br> <b>Description:</b> Quarterly and annual US-China economic activity, including Us direct investment in China and china direct investment in the US (1990s to most recent). </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>CANSIM</b>, Statistics Canada<br> <b>URL:</b> CANSIM for E-STAT at <a href="http://estat.statcan.ca/ ">http://estat.statcan.ca/</a> (unrestricted, updated yearly) or CANSIM @ CHASS at <a href="http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/chasscansim/">http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/chasscansim/</a> (restricted, updated daily)<br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series <br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Aggregate statistics for China-Canada relations including trade, foreign investment, travel, immigration.<br> </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b><a href="http://www.ceicdata.com/">CEIC Data</a></b><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> National, province and municipal, prefecture level city, county level region<br> <b>Description:</b> CEIC Data's <i>China Premium Database</i> offers annual, quarterly and monthly aggregate statistics; coverage ranges from 1950s to most recent, depending on data. Use search function or browse by category for: national accounts (GDP), government and public finance, socio-demographic (population), labour market (employment, income & wages), household survey, consumer goods market, inflation, foreign trade (bilateral), balance of payments, money and banking, interest and exchange rate, investment, business and economic survey, price, private equity, financial market, land and resources, environmental protection, agriculture sector, industrial sector, textile sector, petrochemical sector, pharmaceutical sector, metal and steel sector, electronic sector, machinery sector, automobile sector, energy sector, utility sector, construction sector, wholesale, retail & catering sector, transport, storage & telecom sector, insurance sector, real estate sector, advertising sector, tourism sector. Data exports to Excel.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Available on a workstation in Joseph L. Rotman <a href="http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/BIC/">Business Information Centre</a> (BIC), University of Toronto. Go to BIC reference desk to request access to database. Users can also reserve workstation in advance (email <a href="bicstaff@rotman.utoronto.ca">bicstaff@rotman.utoronto.ca</a>). </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Census and Statistics Department</b>, Hong Kong SAR, PRC<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.info.gov.hk/censtatd/home.html">http://www.info.gov.hk/censtatd/home.html</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Recent key economic and social macro-indicators for Hong Kong. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>China Data Online</b>, China Data Center, University of Michigan<br> <b>URL:</b> Access via <a href="http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=66331&T=R&FID=">http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=66331&T=R&FID=</a> or directly at <a href="http://chinadataonline.org/">http://chinadataonline.org/</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, some time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation, province, county, and city level<br> <b>Description:</b> Includes monthly statistics, national/provincial/city/county statistics, monthly industrial data, yearly industrial data, national/provincial/city yearbooks, economic census, industrial census, Census 1982, Census 1982 (10%), Census 1990, Census 1995 (1%), Province Census 2000, County Census 2000, Census 2005 (1%).<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>China Dimensions Data Collection</b>, Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, Center for International Earth Science Information Network<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://sedac.ciesin.org/china/">http://sedac.ciesin.org/china/</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate (some GIS), time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation, province, county level<br> <b>Description:</b> China administrative regions (national, provincial), maps, county-level data on population (census) and agriculture, county-level data on hospitals and epidemiology stations (1950-1985), county-level data on provincial economic yearbooks, agricultural statistics of People s Republic of China. Refer to <u>readme.txt</u> files before downloading. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>China Historical GIS</b>, Harvard University<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/">http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate (GIS)<br> <b>Geography:</b> Administrative areas<br> <b>Description:</b> Population by 1999 administrative areas.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Requires registration. Available only for non-commercial use for academic research and educational purposes. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>China Population Information and Development Research Center (CPDRC)</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.cpirc.org.cn/en-cpdrc/en-home.htm">http://www.cpirc.org.cn/en-cpdrc/en-home.htm </a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation, region level <br> <b>Description: </b>Crude birth, death and natural growth rates, population, population density (1949 to 1998), output of grain (1978 to 1998). </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>China Statistical Data</b>, China Internet Information Center<br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.china.org.cn/e-company/index.htm ">http://www.china.org.cn/e-company/index.htm</a><br> <b>Description:</b> Monthly macroeconomic indicators concerning industry, investment, price, domestic and foreign trade, import and export, and finance and budget from 2000 onwards. All data are collected from the National Bureau of Statistics. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Database of World Infrastructure Stocks, 1950-1995</b>, World Bank<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/WPS1900series/wps1929/canning1.xls">http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/WPS1900series/wps1929/canning1.xls</a> or <a href="http://prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090/datalib/datar/utm/wb/wis/canning1.xls">http://prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090/datalib/datar/utm/wb/wis/canning1.xls</a> [restricted] <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b >Includes electricity generating capacity, infrastructure quality, telephone main lines, paved road length, rail route length, telephones, Annual data, 1950-1995. Excel format. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal,</b> World Resources Institute<br> <b>URL:</b> Current edition at <a href="http://earthtrends.wri.org/miscell/whatsnew.cfm ">http://earthtrends.wri.org/miscell/whatsnew.cfm</a>; 2000-2001 edition at <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/codebooks/un/wri.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/codebooks/un/wri.htm</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate <br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Includes biodiversity and protected areas, forest and grasslands, coastal, marine and inland waters, agriculture and food, freshwater, atmosphere and climate, energy and resource use, population and human development, and economic indicators (incl. GNP, GDP, external debt, exports and imports of agriculture, food, fuel, metals, and manufacturing, government expenditures, exchange rate, official development assitance, military expenditures, debt service, foreign direct investment, tourism receipts, Gini coefficients, income distribution, commodity prices, poverty rates.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>GapMinder</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.gapminder.org/">http://www.gapminder.org/</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Province level<br> <b>Description:</b> Population by province for select years over the past 2000 years, urban/rural differences, electricity & income. Interactive chart and map features. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Human Development Report,</b>United Nations Development Program (UNDP)<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_CHN.html">http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_CHN.html</a>. Can also access via <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/codebooks/un/hdi.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/codebooks/un/hdi.htm </a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate <br> <b>Geography: </b>Nation level<br> <b>Description: </b>Includes child mortality, profiles of human development and deprivation by country. Also has calories, safe water, malnourished children, under-5 mortality, child survival, low birth weight. Has Index of Human Development and formerly had Gini Coefficient (newer editions do not include the Gini Coefficient). Most recent year and select previous years for some indicators. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>International Database (IDB)</b>, US Census Bureau<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/">http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Demographic indicators from 1950 to latest. Toyal midyear population (area, density); crude birth & death, net migration, & growth rates, births, deaths, & migrants; life expectancy, infant mortality rate, and infant deaths; total fertility rate; midyear population, by age and sex.<br> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>International Monetary Fund (IMF)</b> </p> <ul> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS)</b>, International Monetary Fund (IMF) <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/1000/1532.htm ">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/1000/1532.htm</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description: </b>The quarterly issues, yearbook, and CD-ROM of the Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) present, for most member countries of the (the Fund), current figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports disaggregated according to their most important trading partners. The quarterly issues (DOTSQ) present current figures for about 158 countries. The yearbook (DOTSY) presents, for 182 countries, figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports by trade partners for the years 1999 through 2005. The CD-ROM presents the same information as DOTSY from 1980 onwards for annuals/quarters and months. Area and world aggregates showing trade flows between major areas of the world are presented in DOTSQ, DOTSY and the CD-ROM. Reported data are supplemented by estimates whenever such data are not current or are not available in monthly frequency.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> University of Toronto faculty, students, and staff, for academic research and teaching only. Access via non-circulating CD-ROM at the University of Toronto Data Library Service. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Government Finance Statistics</b>, International Monetary Fund (IMF)<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/1000/1899.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/1000/1899.htm</a> <br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level <b>Description:</b> These time series present combined statistics on detailed revenues and expenditures for all levels of government. Topics covered include deficit/surplus or total financing, revenues or grants, expenditures, lending minus repayments, domestic financing, foreign financing, domestic debt or total debt, and foreign debt. Annual data are supplied for central government accounts and different levels of government in these categories: (1) central government budgetary accounts, (2) central government consolidated accounts, (3) central government extrabudgetary accounts, (4) central government Social Security Funds, (5) state or province governments, (6) local governments, and (7) general governments. Annual, 1965 to 1997. <br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font> </b>University of Toronto faculty, students, and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only. <br> </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>International Monetary Fund Databases @ CHASS</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/imf/">http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/imf/</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> International Financial Statistics (1948 to latest); Government Finance Statistics, Balance of Payments, and Direction of Trade Statistics (1961 to 1994). International Financial Statistics also available on CD-ROM from the Data Library Service.<br> </p> </li> </ul> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>International Trade and Tariff Data, </b>World Trade Organization <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm">http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Most recent indicators for trade, tariffs, and key infrastructure services (transportation, telecommunications, finance and insurance). Aggregate time series statistics (1999 to most recent) for international trade. <br> </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>National Bureau of Statistics of China</b><br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/">http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Annual macroeconomic and social indicators, 1996-latest. Includes national accounts, population, employment and wages, investment, production and consumption of energy, government finance, price indices, households, agriculture, industry, construction, transport and telecommunication, domestic trade, social services, tourism, banking and insurance, education, culture.<br> </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>National Statistics of Taiwan, Republic of China</b><br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.stat.gov.tw">http://www.stat.gov.tw</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, some time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level <br> <b>Description:</b> Provides statistics from Taiwan, some Mainland. Includes national accounts, green national income, family income and expenditure, labour force, earnings and productivity, social indicators, social security, indicators by gender, industry and commerce, population and housing, agriculture, forestry, fishery, national wealth, social development trends (2001 by county-level city). 1961 onwards. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>OECD iLibrary</b>, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.oecdilibrary.org/oecd/">http://www.oecdilibrary.org/oecd/</a> (search by country)<br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate <br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Aggregate statistics for economic and social indicators. Time series statistics available for OECD countries. (Successor of SourceOECD.) <br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Full access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Penn World Table</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/">http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices, 1950-2004. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.<br> </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>UNdata,</b> United Nations Statistics Division<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://data.un.org/">http://data.un.org/</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Includes population, fertility, gender equality, education, literacy, GDP, and industry. Annual statistics, coverage depends on individual datasets. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>UNICEF - China Statistics</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/china_statistics.html "> http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/china_statistics.html </a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Most recent indicators for nutrition, health, HIV/AIDS, education, demographic indicators, economic indicators, women, child protection, rate of progress, under-five mortality rankings. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>World Bank</b><br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/">http://www.worldbank.org/</a> (or directly to China data and statistics via <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/F4UH2U22P0">http://go.worldbank.org/F4UH2U22P0</a>)<br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Key development data & statistics (most recent annual), millennium development goals (every five years from 1990), external debt (most recent four quarters and most recent annual), multilateral investment, global economic outlook (annual, most recent five years), measures of poverty and inequality (every 3 years from 1981), business regulation indicators (most recent annual). </p> <ul> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>World Bank Database @ CHASS</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/wbk/">http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/wbk/</a>, or go directly to <a href="http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wbk/jump?c=217633&DBTYPE=world">http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wbk/jump?c=217633&DBTYPE=world</a> and <a href="http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wbk/jump?c=402898&DBTYPE=debt ">http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wbk/jump?c=402898&DBTYPE=debt</a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate <br> <b>Geography: </b> Nation level <br> <b>Description:</b> The two World Bank databases are: World Bank World Tables of Social and Economic Indicators (18,209 series covering period of 1950-1991.) ; World Bank Debt Tables (24,083 series covering period 1950-1991.) WBK is no longer being updated at CHASS.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted: </font></b>Access is currently restricted to the University of Toronto faculty, staff, and students. </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>World Development Indicators</b>, World Bank<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.google.com/">http://www.google.com/</a> or <a href="http://datafinder.worldbank.org/indicators">http://datafinder.worldbank.org/indicators</a><br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> World development indicators (WDIs) available via the public data search feature of Google Search. For example, searching for  Chinese fertility rate brings up a graph of average number of births per woman in China from 1960 to most recent. The 17 WDIs are CO2 emissions, electric power consumption, energy use, exports of goods and services, fertility rate, GDP, GDP growth, gross national income (GNI) per capita, GNI, imports of goods and services, GDP deflator inflation, internet users, life expectancy at birth, military expenditure as a percentage of GDP, mortality rate under 5, population growth, and total population. </p> </li> </ul> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>The World Factbook</b>, US Central Intelligence Agency<br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/</a> (select region)<br> <b>Description:</b> General aggregate statistics and comparison to US, most recent statistics only. </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>World Resources, 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems,</b> World Resources Institute <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/codebooks/un/wri.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/codebooks/un/wri.htm </a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series<br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Annual statistics include biodiversity and protected areas, forest and grasslands, coastal, marine and inland waters, agriculture and food, freshwater, atmosphere and climate, energy and resource use, population and human development, and economic indicators (incl. GNP, GDP, external debt, exports and imports of agriculture, food, fuel, metals, and manufacturing, government expenditures, exchange rate, official development assitance, military expenditures, debt service, foreign direct investment, tourism receipts, Gini coefficients, income distribution, commodity prices, poverty rates).356 data files (MS Excel and .wk1 format; number of logical records varies) and accompanying documentation.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>World Telecommunications/ICT Indicators Database, 2008 ed</b>, Geneva, CH: International Telecommunication Union (ITU)<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/3000/3854.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/3000/3854.htm </a> <br> <b>Type:</b> Aggregate, time series <br> <b>Geography:</b> Nation level<br> <b>Description:</b> Telecommunication statistics covering telephone network size and dimension, mobile services, Internet, quality of service, traffic, staff, tariffs, revenue and investment. Indicators include: population, population density, GDP per capita, total telephone subscribers, effective teledensity. main (fixed) telephone lines, waiting list, local telephone network, teleaccessibility, fixed telephone tariffs, mobile cellular telephone subscribers, international telephone traffic, telecommunication staff, telecommunication revenue, telecommunication investment, ISDN and DSL, network growth, broadband and bandwidth, Internet. <br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> University of Toronto faculty, students, and staff, for academic research and teaching only. Access via non-circulating CD-ROM at the University of Toronto Data Library Service. </li> </ul> <p align="left"> <font size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#3B9C9C"> <a name="microdata">Microdata / Time Series</a> <hr width=300 align=left color="grey"> </font> </p> <ul> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>AsiaBarometer</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="https://www.asiabarometer.org/">https://www.asiabarometer.org/</a> <br> <b>Description:</b> Comparative survey in Asia, covering East, Southeast, South and central Asia. Focuses on daily lives of ordinary people and their relationships to family, neighbourhood, workplace, social and political institutions, and market place. The 2008 survey covers such topics as governance, democracy, social virtues, happiness, quality of life, international alignments, new middle class, religiosity, mass media, identity, and globalization.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Must apply to access survey data at <a href="https://www.asiabarometer.org/data/abdl.php">https://www.asiabarometer.org/data/abdl.php</a>. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Chinese General Social Survey, 2003</b>, National Survey Research Center, Renmin University of China <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/3000/3906.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/inventory/3000/3906.htm</a> <br> <b>Description:</b> 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.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> University of Toronto faculty, students and staff, for academic research and teaching only. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>China Health and Nutrition Survey, 1989</b>, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/china">http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/china</a> <br> <b>Description:</b> The China Health and Nutrition Survey was designed to examine the effects of the health, nutrition, and family planning policies and programs implemented by national and local governments and to see how the social and economic transformation of Chinese society is affecting the health and nutritional status of its population. The impact on nutrition and health behaviors and outcomes is gauged by changes in community organizations and programs as well as by changes in sets of household and individual economic, demographic, and social factors. SAS XPORT files for 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Requires registration. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/">http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/</a> <br> <b>Description: </b> Survey data on health and nutrition, housing, demography, household income, military conflicts, terrorism, crime. Also has some time series data, including balance of payments and government finance statistics. Includes <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/02571">China Housing Survey</a>, 1993.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Requires registration with a University of Toronto email address. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>IPUMS International</b> <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="https://international.ipums.org/international/ ">https://international.ipums.org/international/</a><br> <b>Description:</b> Census microdata (1982 and 1990) for social and economic research at the household level.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Prospective users must submit an electronic authorization form identifying the user by name, electronic address, and institutional affiliation. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, </b> University of Connecticut<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu">http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu </a> <br> <b>Description:</b> Small number of survey results from Hong Kong. US public opinion polls on topics related to China.<br> <b><font color="#3B9C9C">Restricted:</font></b> Requires registration from University of Toronto IP addresses. </li> </ul> <p align="left"> <font size="4" face="Tahoma" color="#3B9C9C"> <a name="other">Other Resources</a> <hr width=300 align=left color="grey"> </font> </p> <ul> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Data Library</b>, University of Edinburgh<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/sources.html">http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/sources.html</a> <br> <b>Description:</b> Directory of international data resources (searchable). </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Documents Center</b>, University of Michigan<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore">http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore </a> <br> <b>Description:</b> Directory of international government documents (searchable). </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Guide to Freely Available International Data Resources,</b> ESDS International<br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.esds.ac.uk/International/access/guide.asp#freedata">http://www.esds.ac.uk/International/access/guide.asp#freedata</a> <br> <b>Description:</b> Directory to several resources for international data. </p> </li> <li type=circle> <p align="left"> <b>Statistical Information Guide</b>, American University Library <br> <b>URL:</b> <a href="http://www.library.american.edu/subject/statistics.html">http://www.library.american.edu/subject/statistics.html</a> <br> <b>Description:</b> Links to general international statistical resources. </p> </li> </ul> <hr> <p align="left"> <address>Html document by Amanda Lui, <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/">Data Library Service</a>, University of Toronto <br>Created: February 26, 2010; Last updated: 2010-04-16. </address> </p> </body> </html>