China's STEM Research Environment: A Snapshot

This fileset contains data associated with the following publication: China's STEM Research Environment: A Snapshot. Accessible here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0195347
All identifying information have been removed from the following data sets to protect the privacy of our survey respondents. Original survey questions (in both Mandarin Chinese and English) can be found as supplemental material under a forthcoming publication. If you would like access to the original survey questions prior to the publication or have any questions regarding the fileset, please contact Xueying Han at [e-mail].
There are five files in this fileset:
1. "All surveys combined.csv" Raw survey data from the 731 completed surveys. Does not include free response answers.
2. "Translation and coding for challenges to research environment.xlsx" Free response answers (original text + English translation) to survey question #51 (What challenges, if any, do you think exist in China's current research environment/culture?) File also provides manual coding of each free response answer: 1 = challenge was identified by a survey respondent, 0 = challenge was not identified by a survey respondent. Twelve challenge themes were identified. Each challenge theme consists of a subset of smaller challenges that contributes to the larger challenge. (N = 466 responses)
3. "Identified challenges to China's scientific environnment.csv" Contains presence/absence data (1/0) for the 12 challenge themes identified in data set #2. File to be used in R.
4. "Translation and coding for opportunities for improvement.xlsx" Free response answers (original text + English translation) to survey question #52 (What changes, if any, do you think would improve the research environment/culture in China?) File also provides manual coding of each free response answer: 1 = recommendation to improve the research environment was identified by a survey respondent, 0 = recommendation was not identified by a survey respondent. Ten overencompassing themes were identified. Each theme consists of a subset of recommendations to improve China's research environment. (N = 443 responses)
5. "Opportunities for improving China's research environment.csv" Contains presence/absence data (1/0) for the 10 themes on how to improve China's research environment identified in data set #4. File to be used in R.