Unit-control variable codes
t05 Administrative status of the central place, 1990
There are 14 values, defined by position in a cross-tabulation of two dimensions.
One has to do with municipal/zhen status, the other with status as a capital.
cc = central city
Province Prefecture County
Not a
capital capital capital
capital
Cc of municipal province 1
Cc of municipal prefecture 2 4
Cc of prefectural municipality 3 5
Cc of municipal county 6 8
Cc of county municipality 7 9
Zhen 10 11
12
Town not designated shi or zhen 13
14
(Even though they may not be used for records in the tabular dataset, values 13 and
14 are needed to code small towns that appear on our vectorized maps.)
t06 Type of central place
1 Cc of shi as of midyear 1990
2 Zhen or qu at midyear but cc of shi by endyear 1990
3 Zhen (usual type with urban residential committee), apart from (2)
4 Formally a zhen but with no P under urban residential cmt.
5 Qu or diqu (counted as zhen)
6 Xiang seat
7 Paichusuo (police station) (counted as zhen)
8 Mine
9 Site of factory or firm
PROVISIONAL MACROREGIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
Since central places along interregional frontiers may be oriented to more than one
regional economy, it is necessary to have separate binary variables for each of the
regions/subregions.
t09 Inner Asia
t11 Manchuria Proper
t12 Manchuria: Tumen Border
t13 Manchuria: Northeast Border
t14 Manchuria: North Border
t21 North China: North
t22 North China: South
t23 North China: East
t31 Northwest China: Wei-Fen
t32 Northwest China: Upper Yellow River
t41 Upper Yangzi Proper
t42 Upper Yangzi: Upper Han Basin
t51 Middle Yangzi Proper
t52 Middle Yangzi: Gan Basin
t53 Middle Yangzi: Yuan Basin
t54 Middle Yangzi: Guilin
t61 Lower Yangzi Proper
t62 Lower Yangzi: Linhai
t63 Lower Yangzi: Wenzhou
t71 Southeast Coast: Min Basin
t72 Southeast Coast: Zhang-Quan
t73 Southeast Coast: Han Basin
t80 Lingnan
t91 Yungui Proper
t92 Yungui: Guiyang
t93 Yungui: South border
t94 Yungui: Southwest Border