National Sinosurvey - China 2005

Socio-economic and demographic issues.

Topics: residential status; facilities owned (electricity from the public grid or from a single generator, running water, hot water, storage for water from the well, indoor toilet, outdoor toilet, gas for boiling/heating, telephone, mobile phone, radio, TV, Internet access); budget expenditure in several expenditure areas (food and beverages, clothing and footwear, housing, energy, water, household goods / consumer durables, medicine and medical services, communications and transport, culture, education and recreational expenditure, other goods and services, insurance, savings) and total expenditure; sources of income; monthly net household income; possessions (e. g., housing, housing, housing, water, household goods / consumer goods) and total expenditure (e.G air conditioning, bank account, bicycle, car, car, carpet, agricultural machinery, animals for work or food production, soft bed, blanket, etc.); frequency of mobile phone use; number of SMS sent and received per day; member of household is currently working in another city; name of this city and province; date of start of work and (probably) end of work in this city (month and year); total duration; reason for the household member´s relocation to another city.

Demography: sex; age; marital status; household size and household composition: number of persons aged 15 years and over, number and age of children (0-3,4-7 and 8-14 years respectively no children under 15 years); main wage earners; highest educational attainment of the respondent and main wage earner; current employment status, industry and occupation of the respondent and main wage earner; mother tongue; language spoken at home; other language(s); self-assessment of English language skills; authority to issue directives; employer function; assessment of household´s standard of living.

Additionally coded was: questionnaire ID; province; city; urban or rural neighbourhood; cluster incl. rural; region; weighting factors.