Liu, Elaine and Wang, Shing-Yi and Wang, Yongxiang
(2020).
Rural firm and household land survey 2010.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Archive.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-852045
The research entails two projects that examine the impact of rural land rights on the decisions and outcomes of farmers in China. In the first project, the research team is interested in how giving farmers the leasing rights in a context where farmers previously only had use rights and could not legally engage in any market land transaction such as selling or renting could improve farmers’ outcomes. In the second project, they are interested in thinking about the determinants of the types and the terms of the contracts that farmers sign when allowing other farmers or agricultural firms to use their land. They will also analyse the impact of these contract choices on agricultural investment and productivity. This analysis makes use of a land reform that occurred in some areas of rural China where farmers were allowed to use their land as capital investment to enter into profit-sharing contracts with large-scale agricultural firms.
Data description (abstract)
This research agenda builds on economic theories that suggest that some types of contracts may lead to lower investment and lower levels of productivity. This research will provide valuable insight into how land market interactions among farmers and between farmers and agricultural firms affect rural economic growth. Household survey covers 2399 households in 21 provinces in China. Firm surveys cover 171 firms from 154 villages in 18 provinces.
| Data creators: |
| Creator Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Liu Elaine |
University of Houston |
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| Wang Shing-Yi |
University of Pennsylvania |
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| Wang Yongxiang |
University of Southern California |
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| Sponsors: |
ESRC
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| Grant reference: |
ES/J008966/1
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| Topic classification: |
Economics
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| Keywords: |
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS, AGRICULTURAL LAND, INVESTMENT, FARMERS, RURAL AREAS, RURAL POPULATION, PRODUCTIVITY
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| Project title: |
Rural Property Rights, Returns to Scale and Contracts
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| Grant holders: |
Elaine Liu, Shing-Yi Wang, Yongxiang Wang
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| Project dates: |
| From | To |
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| 25 April 2012 | 24 October 2014 |
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| Date published: |
11 Nov 2015 11:53
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| Last modified: |
21 Sep 2020 10:59
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| Collection period: |
| Date from: | Date to: |
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| 25 April 2012 | 24 October 2014 |
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| Country: |
China |
| Data collection method: |
Face-to-face interviews; Household questionnaires include sections on plot-level input, contract, yield, farming information, leasing-in and leasing-out contracts, and local co-ops information. Firm questionnaires include sections on basic business operation information, contracts between firms and farmers, profits and losses, inputs and productions. |
| Observation unit: |
Household |
| Kind of data: |
Numeric |
| Type of data: |
Other surveys |
| Resource language: |
Chinese |
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| Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
In June 2012, MOA enumerator leaders from different provinces came to Beijing for the annual training sessions for NFP survey. At the training session, a senior officer from MOA, Dr. Ou Wang, lectured in great details how to conduct our survey and also explained what each variable in our questionnaire means. These leaders then in turn trained local enumerators after they went back. In Nov, 2012, local enumerators started to visit all each households for NFP survey and our questionnaire is added onto NFP survey for a subset of selected households.
After local enumerators were done with the survey, they mailed back the hard copies to MOA office in Beijing. An independent company in Beijing was hired to scan all hard copies into pdf documents. After that, we hired another company in Beijing to input these pdf records into excel files.
To protect privacy of these NFP households (and also in line with the requirement from MOA), we anonymize these information that may help to identify the location of these MOA villages/households, including province code, village code and household code that is used by MOA survey system, while keeping a copy of such information in a safe place for further references.
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| Rights owners: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Liu Elaine |
University of Houston |
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| Wang Shing-Yi |
University of Pennsylvania |
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| Wang Yongxiang |
University of Southern California |
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| Contact: |
| Name | Email | Affiliation | ORCID (as URL) |
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| Liu, Elaine | emliu@Central.uh.edu | University of Houston | Unspecified | | Wang, Shing-Yi | was@wharton.upenn.edu | University of Pennsylvania | Unspecified | | Wang, Yongxiang | yongxiaw@marshall.usc.edu | University of Southern California | Unspecified |
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| Notes on access: |
The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.
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| Publisher: |
UK Data Archive
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| Last modified: |
21 Sep 2020 10:59
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