Barometer on China's Development - 中国发展数据库（县级）

Introduction - 简介Important Disclaimer - 免责声明

Introduction	简介
The BOCD (Barometer on China’s Development) project aims to build a first-rate electronic GIS database on developments in China at the Universities Service Centre for China Studies. The database will include social, economic, political and other indicators about 333 prefectures and 2,862 counties. Parameters of the database was selected by scholars from anthropology, demography, ecology, economics, education, geography, history, public administration, political science, social work, and sociology. The database will serve as a multi-dimensional barometer with which academic researchers and policy analysts from all over the world can monitor, explore, and evaluate China’s development. In return, users of the database will contribute resources and expertise for its maintenance and further development.	中国研究服务中心设立中国发展数据库（县级）项目，旨在建立一流的地理信息系统兼容的数据库，以便观察中国地方发展的动态。这个数据库包括333个地级市和 2,862个县的多年度的社会、经济、政治及社会领域内的各种指标。这些指标由人类学、人口统计学、生态学、经济学、教育学、地理学、历史、公共行政管理、政治学、社会工作、社会学等等学科的学者们共同挑选。这是一个观察中国发展动态具有多维度指标的数据库，世界各地的学者和政策研究者可以观测、探究、评估中国的发展。同时，数据使用者可以为维护和完善数据库做出资源和专业性的贡献。
Project Objectives	项目目标
One of the greatest challenges facing studies of China is its huge regional variations. Economic growth, demographic structure, social stability, and governance all vary from place to place, particularly from county to county and prefecture to prefecture. So far, however, neither policy analysts nor academic researchers have managed to establish a comprehensive platform for monitoring and evaluating China’s developments by counties and/or prefectures. Indeed, given the magnitude and the complexity of China’s nested administrative hierarchy, the costs of producing systematic nationwide county-level and prefecture-level data are beyond the capability of any single researcher. This project aims at building up such a multidisciplinary and longitudinal database on 2,862 Chinese counties and 333 prefectures. The database and GIS system will provide researchers of contemporary China with the critical and reliable multi-level data that needed for theory-building and hypothesis-testing. It will also facilitate comparative and trend studies in various disciplines with a common, open, and scalable analytical instrument. Practically, the database will enable policy analysts in China to assess the applicability and effectiveness of important reform initiatives in public finance, taxation, education, personnel management, migration, social security, public health and so on.	中国区域幅员辽阔，是中国研究面临的巨大挑战之一。经济增长、人口结构、社会稳定以及治理都因地而异，县之间和地级市之间具有多样性差异。至今，政策研究和学术研究都还没有一个综合而一致的数据整合平台，供大家观察和评估中国县和地级市的发展。的确，由于中国庞大而重叠复杂的行政区划，建立一个系统的全国县级和地级市的数据库，是研究者们力不从心的。我们的目标就是为中国2,862个县和333个地级市建立一个多维度、多年度社会指标的数据库。数据库和地理信息系统将为研究者观察当代中国，提供可审视和可靠的多层数据，作为理论建构和测试推理用。由于具有一个共同的、公开的和可衡量的分析工具，研究者还可以做跨学科比较和趋势分析。具体而言，这个数据库可就公共财政、税务、教育、人事管理、移民、社会治安、公共卫生等等领域，对重要的改革的适用性和效果做分析。
Support	获得的支持
We are grateful for the generous support of the Chinese University for the first phase of this long-term initiative. Phase I focuses primarily on data collection at the county level from 1978 to 2000. We plan on extending the temporal scope of BOCD in future iterations of the project.	我们衷心地感谢香港中文大学中国研究导向委员会对第一阶段的资金资助。这个数据库项目是一项长期努力，第一阶段的重点是1978年至2000年的数据的收集。我们计划将数据年代随年份向前推进。

Important Disclaimer

免责声明

We endeavor to provide services on data requests in a timely manner. BOCD datasets should therefore be taken as preliminary unless otherwise specified. While we strive to provide the most accurate information possible, BOCD bears no liability of any kind regarding accuracy or reliability issues due to data processing errors or inconsistencies in the sources on which they draw. Should users encounter errors, we urge them to post a comment detailing the issue, and we will address those in later data releases. Though we may not be able to respond to individual e-mail queries, we will document all data updates.
BOCD is an open, exchange-oriented platform. If you use our data in the course of your research, generate new variables, or link BOCD variables to other data sources, please let us know and consider contributing your new variable(s) to the project. We will all benefit from the accumulation of open scientific data. If you publish a book or an article that uses BOCD, please cite it as follows:
The data is made available from Barometer on County Development (BOCD), Universities Service Center for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.
BOCD is a strictly non-commercial initiative that exists as a service to the research community. All users shall observe to the user agreement. This database may not be reproduced in any form, by any method, for any purpose, either in part or in its entirety, without the express written permission of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Users may not re-post or sell any dataset (or part there of) under any circumstances without our written approval.

我们尽力及时地提供数据服务。除非有特别的说明，中国发展数据库现在仅仅是一个初级版。我们会尽力提供最准确数据信息，但同时中国发展数据库没有义务保证数据的准确性和可靠性，由于在数据处理过程中的错误或者数据来源就已经存在不一致性。如果使用者发现错误，请及时公呈帖子，详细说明数据问题，我们会在下一次的数据发布中向使用者说明问题。虽然我们难以回应每一个询问，我们会纪录每一个数据更正的情况。
中国发展数据库是一个交流的平台。如果您在研究过程中使用了我们的数据库，产生了新的变量，或者将中国发展数据库与其他的数据库相连接使用，请通知我们，并请您考虑将新变量作为贡献，加入BOCD数据库。研究者会共同受惠于这个科学性的数据库。如果您使用我们的数据出版发表了著作或者文章，请按如下格式注明数据出处：

使用数据来自于中国发展数据库（县级），香港中文大学中国研究服务中心，2011年。

中国发展数据库是严格的非商业性的创造，为研究者提供服务的。数据使用者必须遵守数据使用协议，在没有得到香港中文大学的书面批准之前，不得以任何形式、任何方法、为任何其他的目的，修改部分或者全部的数据，不得张贴或者买卖任何（或者部分的）数据。