We are pleased to announce that the “China Survey Data Network” (CSDN) is now ready for release. As a joint effort by the China Data Center of the University of Michigan and the China Center for Economic Research of Peking University with funding support from the Ford Foundation Beijing office, CSDN is a web-based data network for the archiving of microdata on China. Its primary mission is to promote the sharing of microdata on China among researchers within and outside of China.
CSDN has a bilingual website at
http://www.chinasurveycenter.org. The main functions on the current web site include Find Datasets, Data Deposit, Data Tutorial, and Online Survey. The web site also includes many links to other online resources for China studies. If you have a microdataset on China that you are willing to share with others, we encourage you to deposit the data through the CSDN website.
Self-registration is now open for all potential contributors or users of microdata on China. We invite you to visit the CSDN web site at
http://www.chinasurveycenter.org. Please feel free to share this message with your colleagues who might be interested in it. We look forward to your contributions to CSDN as well as your feedback on how CSDN can be improved. Please feel free to contact us at
csdn@ccer.edu.cn or
chinasurvey@umich.edu if you have any suggestions.
Contact:
China:
Dr. Li Xiaohua
CSDN Coordinator
China Center for Economic Research
Peking Unversity
Beijing 100871
P. R. China
U.S.A:
China Data Center
1007 E Huron St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1690
U. S. A