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Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary China, 1996 (M889V1)

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary China, 1996 (M889V1)
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/33PMXL
 
Creator Treiman, Donald J.
Szelenyi, Ivan
Walder, Andrew
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description As part of the project "Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary China," a national probability sample survey was conducted in the People's Republic of China during June-October 1996. Interviews were completed for 3,087 urban residents and 3,003 rural residents, using an identical questionnaire. These data may be regarded either as two separate samples or as a single sample stratified by urban vs. rural residence. As part of the fieldwork operation for the rural survey, a survey of 383 village leaders was also carried out, using the same questionnaire. The project was initiated in 1994 by Donald J. Treiman and Ivan Szelenyi, at UCLA, and Andrew Walder, then at Harvard and now at Stanford University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in cooperation with staff of the Department of Sociology, People's University, Beijing, a group with extensive experience carrying out sample surveys in China. Funding was obtained by Treiman, Szelenyi, and Walder from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Luce Foundation, the Ford Foundation–Beijing, and the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program. This was a cooperative project, between the U.S. and Chinese sides. In a series of some 10 meetings the sample design for the surveys was developed and the questionnaire was hammered into final form, drawing upon the expertise of the participants plus the results of two, relatively small, pretests. At several points in its development, the questionnaire was translated from English to Chinese by members of the People’s University team and from Chinese to English by Prof. Walder and several Chinese-speaking UCLA graduate students.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Language Chinese
English
 
Type Survey data