ChinaT Dataset

This dataset contains a record for every central place in China that was the central city of a shi (municipality) or classed as a zhen (town) as of 1 July 1990. Point-in-time data are for mid-year 1990, unless otherwise noted; annual data are for calendar year 1990. The dataset contains 12,163 records, of which 452 are for central cities of municipalities in existence at mid-year 1990 and 15 are for the central cities of municipalities formed during the second half of 1990. ID numbers contain 8 digits, the first 6 of which correspond to the ID of the county-level unit in which the central place is located. Municipal central cities have been assigned 00 as the final two digits of the ID, except for the 15 cases whose status changed from zhen to shi during July-Dec 1990. Since these cases are covered by the municipalities yearbook even though they were only zhen at our reference date, we have flagged their peculiar status with a special code. The various zhen within a given county-level unit have been assigned final digits beginning with 01 in the order of their appearance in the census tables.The short designation of any variable is a number preceded by t (for "town), indicating the ChinaT dataset, which is to be distinguished from ChinaA (for "area"), the 1990 dataset with records for county-level administrative units. Non-Han names are not entered in ChinaT because they are not available for most of the zhen in minority areas. When the central city of a municipality has a non-Han name, it can be found in the record for that municipality in ChinaA.

Unit-control variables
Raw-data variables
Analytical variables

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