Original Data of Happiness Resources in China.xlsx

The data is used to measuring happiness resources of China. This evaluation index system is constructed from 5 primary indexes, 18 secondary indexes and 55 tertiary indexes. Considering the data acquisition, this paper selects 30 provincial administrative units as the basic sample (excluding Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in China). The period ranges from 2005 to 2019, which ensures a sufficient length of time for investigating the development characteristics of China's happiness resources. The data for this paper mainly come from the “China Statistical Yearbook,” the statistical yearbook of various provinces, the “educational statistics yearbook of China,” the annual work report of government departments at all levels, the EPS database, etc. In particular, the financial transparency data come from the China financial transparency report issued by the public policy research center of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. For all the indicators of price factors that are involved in our research, the price adjustment is conducted based on the data from 2004. To address the problem of missing data for individual indicators in certain years, the interpolation method, mean method and average annual growth rate are used to fill in the missing data.