Dataset of "Economic Forces Determine the Implementation Effectiveness of China’s Farmland Protection Planning during the Past Decade (2010-2020)"

Land use data: In 2010 and 2020, collected from second and third national land resource surveys as well as land use change surveys conducted by the State Council. The prefecture-level farmland area data was obtained by the China Land Survey Results Sharing Application Service Platform (https://gtdc.mnr.gov.cn/Share#/), while prefectures that underwent major adjustments of administrative divisions between 2010 and 2020 or lacked planning data were excluded. Additionally, we calculated farmland area using the China Land Use/cover Dataset with 30m spatial resolution from the Resource and Environment Science and Data Center (RESDC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Planning quotas: The prefecture-level farmland protection quotas and the reported farmland area at base period were collected from provincial land use master plans for 2006-2020. Socio-economic factors: All data were collected from the China Statistical Yearbook, the China Land and Resources Statistical Yearbook or provincial statistical yearbooks, with missing data obtained from the population census yearbooks or prefectural statistical bulletins.