Datasets for the data collection method and examples of the material flows at city level

Two excel files serve as the datasets for the publication “H. Gao et al., 2021. Standardized method for material flow data collection at city level, Data in Brief.” It provided the detailed instructions of how to use the standardized method to obtain the material flow data with the general data sources at city level. For the application of this method in case of 16 cities in Shandong Province, China, as well as more illustrations of the results based on these datasets of the material flows, they can be found in the publication “H. Gao, X. Tian, Y. Zhang, L. Shi, F. Shi, 2021. Evaluating circular economy performance based on ecological network analysis: A framework and application at city level. 105257. Resources, Conservation & Recycling,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105257.”