Each GB code in the database consists of six digits. The first two digits represent the province, the second two the prefecture, and the third two the county. Province, prefectural, and county codings are contained in the linked document, Province codings. Because GB codes do not exist for every administrative unit that existed in the life of the database, it was necessary to create codes in certain circumstances. The construction of the database and information on assignment of values is described in the linked document, Procedures used in the creating the GB database. The dataset consists of ten fields for each record (see variable codes for a description of coding scheme):
FIELD DESCRIPTION FORMAT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C-gbcode GB code integer C-source Source of code text N-pinyin Romanized name in Pinyin text N-local Romanized name using some non-Chinese pronunciations text N-hanzi Name in Chinese characters text H Hierarchical position of unit (county-level) integer A Administrative status of unit integer change Configuration of changes text P Hierarchical position of unit (prefecture-level) integer fromdate First day the coded configuration was in effect 8 digits in yyyymmdd todate Last day the coded configuration was in effect 8 digits in yyyymmdd NOTES Details regarding special circumstances text (255 characters)
FILE FORMAT
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gbcodes1.mdb Microsoft Access Version 2.0 with user interface that allows to
search on specific names or codes and also automatically create
provincial and/or temporal subsets of the full 1982-1994 GB Codes
database. The current version requires Microsoft Access 2.0 or
higher to run.
gbcodes1.txt Plain ASCII, comma delimited with field names.
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