Dataset of CIRS

The data are part of large-scale survey organized by the China Institute for Rural Studies (CIRS) at Tsinghua University from 2012 to 2016. The survey questionnaire covered seven major topics: basic information of family and family members, family economic conditions, irrigation and farmland water conservancy, rural governance and organization in rural areas, education, rural hygiene and social guarantees, and rural living environment. The survey contains information at both the household and village level. The survey data cove a wide range of topics and could be used for various research purposes. The data here reflects one of the questionnaire parts “irrigation and farmland water conservancy”, but also draws some information from the other parts of the questionnaire.