China Multigenerational Panel Database-Shuangcheng

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Introduction

The China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset - Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC) provides longitudinal individual, household, and community information on the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of a resettled population living in Shuangcheng, a county in present-day Heilongjiang Province of Northeastern China, for the period from 1866 to 1913. The dataset includes some 1.3 million annual observations of over 100,000 unique individuals descended from families who were relocated to Shuangcheng in the early 19th century. These families were divided into 3 categories based on their place of origin: metropolitan bannermen, rural bannermen, and floating bannermen. The CMGPD-SC, like its Liaoning counterpart, the CMGPD-LN (ICPSR 27063), is a valuable data source for studying longitudinal as well as multi-generational social and demographic processes. The population categories had salient differences in social origins and land entitlements, and landholding data are available at a number of time periods, thus the CMGPD-SC is especially suitable to the study of stratification processes.

Shortname

CMGPD-SC

IDS compatible

Period

1866 - 1913

Territory

Shuangcheng County, Heilongjiang, China

Contact information

Organisation

HKUST

Web Address

http://www.ust.hk

Location

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Contact Persons

Shuang Chen

shuang-chen@uiowa.edu

Citation

Lee, James Z., and Cameron D. Campbell. China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, Liaoning (CMGPD-LN), 1749-1909. ICPSR27063-v10. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-09-06. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27063.v10

Questionnaire
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The questionnaire was submitted on 22 September 2016 by Cameron Campbell.

Scope / Status

Current status

Completed and publicly released. Constructed between 2004-2015.

Sample definition

1. Which source forms the basis for the sample? Household registers compiled every year for a settler population in Shuangcheng. 2. Sampling units: Individuals. 3. Variables used for selection: Age, gender, marital status, other? All available. 4. Selection method: Random, stratified random, total count, clustered, other? All available. We entered 12 sets of registers in their entirety.

Keywords

history, demography, population register, China, multi-generational

Sources

From year	End year	Source	Explanation	PDF
1866	1913	Population registers ( maintained by church or state)		PDF
		Landholding records		PDF

Collection procedure

• The data was collected and transcribed in 2005-2015.
• Data collection method by transcription from microfilm and scanned images. Transcription by individuals from scanned sources, including LDS microforms and scans.
• Purpose of the transcription: research, though we turned our name index over to the LDS.
• The checking of the transcription was done continually by consistency checking of the variables.
• Control methods by researcher: numerous consistency checks along these lines.
• Data collection staff: coders hired on an ad hoc basis.

Observations

Units of observation

Unit of observation	Explanation	Number
Individuals		100,000
Married couples	Counts depend on definitions
Families/households
Institutions	Populations were organized by Banner	8
Communities		120

Are there any related observations that are not included in the database?

Some registers have not survived.

How do the units of observation enter observation?

Individuals: appear in an annual register. Households: recorded in cross-section every year.

How do the units of observation leave observation?

Departure annotated in an annual register.

Dates estimated

Yes

Are some entry or exit dates unknown?

Yes

Can observations be linked to geographic locations?

Yes

Are the dates and locations of movements within the observation area recorded?

Yes

Are all individuals who lived in the households of sample members recorded?

Partly

All, except for daughters, and boys who died early.

Linkage

• Which sources and units of observation have been linked? - Annual registers, longitudinally. Family members and ancestry. • Documentation of linking: Manual linkage of individuals across registers, programme linkage of individuals to their kin. • Name of software used: STATA. • What are the rules for linking? - Name, location in register, age, other information. • How is linkage represented in the database? - All individuals are assigned a unique identifier. • Linkage percentage: Nearly complete. • Quality of linkage (own evaluation): Amazing.

Variables

Events

Variables

• On individuals: Year of birth (calculated), Year of death (3 year interval), Year of marriage (3 year interval), Marital status (inferred), Presence or absence of various kin, Official position (for males), Banner affiliation, Age (in Chinese sui), Relationship to household head, Numbers of children born, Numbers of children alive, Ethnic registration, Nature of institutional affiliation, Landholding (via linkage to land registers)
• On households: Size, Age composition, Landholding

Coding / Reference systems

Locations (including geo-referenced systems): Latitude/longitude

Data representation

Available as a delimited rectangular file, and in various formats for common statistical programs such as STATA, SPSS, SAS.

Kinship relations

Recording

Patrilineal kinship (multiple variables available).

Depth of information

Four generations.

Publications

1. Main publications about the database itself (max. 5)

Lee, J.Z., Campbell, C.D., & Chen, S. (2010). China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, Liaoning (CMGPD-LN) 1749-1909. User Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Download.
Dong, H., Campbell, C., Kurosu, S., Yang, W., & Lee, J.Z. (2015). New sources for comparative social science: Historical population panel data from East Asia. Demography, 52 (3), 1061-1088. Download.

2. Main or exemplary publications on research based on the database (max. 5)

Shuang, C., Campbell, C, & Lee, J.Z. (2014). Categorical Inequality and Gender Difference: Marriage and Remarriage in Northeast China, 1749-1913. Chapter 11 in Lundh, Christer, Satomi Kurosu, et al., Similarity in Difference: Marriage in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. MIT Press, 393-438.
Shuang, C., Lee, J.Z., & Campbell C. (2010). Wealth stratification and reproduction in Northeast China, 1866-1907. History of the Family, 15, 386-412. PMCID: PMC2992971.
任玉雪 (Ren Yuxue, 李中清 (James Lee), 康文林(Cameron Campbell). (2011) (民国100年). 地方政府實踐與國家制度之間的衝突及重塑-以晚清吉林將軍雙城堡民界的出現為列 (Conflict and Reform in Local Government Administrative Practices and Central Government Institutions: The Emergence of the Minjie in Shuangchengpu during the Late Qing Dynasty). 中央研究院历史语言研究所集刊 (Journal of the Academia Sinica Institute of History and Philology), 82(3), 493-532.
Chen, S., Campbell, C, & Lee, J.Z. (2005, publ. 2006). Vulnerability and Resettlement: Mortality Differences in Northeast China by Place of Origin, 1870-1912 - Comparing Urban and Rural Migrants. Annales de Démographie Historique. 2005(2), 47-79.

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