Survey Data on Apple Farming in China: Agronomic Management, Advisory Channels, and Profitability

The Survey results and original data are stored in a directory structured as the table:

Type
File Name
Description

Raw_Data_Spearate_Source

raw_data_chinesetelephone.xlsx
Raw data in Chinese obtained through telephone interviews

raw_data_english_telephone.xlsx
Translated data in English corresponding to the Chinese telephone interview data

raw_data_chinese_wechat.xlsx
Raw data in Chinese obtained through the Wechat Mini Program

raw_data_english_wechat.xlsx
Translated data in English corresponding to the Chinese Wechat Mini Program data

Raw_Data_Total
raw_data_chinese_total.xlsx
Combined data from raw_data_chinese_telephone.xlsx and raw_data_chinese_wechat.xlsx

raw_data_english_total.xlsx
Combined data from raw_data_english_telephone.xlsx and raw_data_english_wechat.xlsx

Apple_Statistical_Data
apple_2022_statistical_data.xlsx
Contains data on apple planting area, production, and yield sourced from the China Statistics Bureau, along with the number of survey questionnaires collected from various provinces

province_eng.xlsx
Contains the English version of the provinces' names

Map_Boundary_line
national_boundary_line.shp
The country boundaires of China

province_boundary.shp
The province boundaries of China

For privacy reasons, identifiers such as names, telephone numbers and specific addresses of the respondents have been anonymized within the dataset. There are 96 columns in the raw_data_english_total.xlsx or raw_data_chinese_total.xlsx file, each corresponding to one question in the questionnaire.