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Chinese County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, v1 (1950 – 1985)

Dataset Description

The Chinese County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, 1950-1985 datasets are provided in SPSS format, ARC/INFO export format and in ASCII format.

  • COVERAGES:
    • CITAS86.e00: Single-precision derivative of the tbd90 dataset keyed to the administrative divisions of China described in the 1986 edition of the Guobiao Codes (GB2260-86).
      (Note: the Chinese County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, 1950-1985 may require 1950-1985 administrative regions units and GB codes in some cases)
  • THEMATIC DATA FILES:

Data Sources

The Chinese County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, 1950-1985 was provided by Prof. William Lavely (Director of CITAS - China in Time and Space - Project and Associate Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, USA).

The data were created from (1) Tabular data source; and (2) County boundary GIS data source:

(1) Tabular Data Source:

  • National Directory of County-Level and Above Hospitals (Health System), Beijing: People's Public Health Press, 1985.
  • National Directory of County-Level and Above Epidemiological Institutions (Health System), Beijing: People's Public Health Press, 1988.
  • Encyclopedia of Chinese Hospitals, Beijing: Guangming Daily Publisher, 1989.

(2) County Boundary GIS Data Source:

  • Liu Chuang, Yao Xurong, and William Lavely: China Administrative Regions GIS Data: 1:1M, County Level, 1990, published by CIESIN.

Contributors

The Chinese County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, 1950-1985 was developed by the team led by Prof. William Lavely (Director of CITAS - China in Time and Space - Project and Associate Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, USA.).

Ms. Alana Boland (Research Assistant at University of Washington) and Mr. Alisa Chang (Research Assistant at University of Washington) assisted the data development.

The SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Application Center) China task group coordinated data management at CIESIN. Contributors included: Dr. Liu Chuang (Information Scientist and China Task Leader) for coordinating between CIESIN and CITAS, and within the China task group; Dr. Karen C. Sullivan (Information Specialist) for the metadata records; Ms. Mahasin Z. Muhammad (Data Systems Specialist) for archiving the data; Mrs. Clara J del Valle (Data Specialist) for permission of the data dissemination; Dr. Liu Chuang and Dr. Darryl Charache (Information Scientist) for the World Wide Web (WWW) site; Mr. Richard L. Robinson (User Services Manager) and Mr. Jack M. Evans (Data Specialist) for user support; Dr. Robert Chen (Director of Data Center Services and SEDAC Project Manager) provided overall project guidance.

Organizations

China in Time and Space (CITAS), University of Washington, USA

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)