The Reform of Rural Collective Property Rights System and Villagers' Self-Governance: A quasi-natural experiment utilizing data from China's rural revitalization survey

The data used in this study is sourced from the China Rural Revitalization Survey (CRRS) database. This database was initiated and completed by the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It is a major socio-economic survey project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The survey work was carried out under the guidance and support of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group. The database has a wide coverage and systematic content, which can well reflect the institutional changes and development characteristics of current rural areas in China. Therefore, it is highly compatible with the research topic of this paper and has good adaptability. The research team conducted the survey in 50 counties (cities) of 10 provinces (regions) including Guangdong, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang, Heilongjiang and Ningxia from August to September 2020. These provinces cover different regions in the east, middle and west, with varying levels of economic development, and all are pilot areas for rural collective property rights reform, which have high representativeness and research compatibility. The survey adopted stratified random sampling method, and a total of 300 village-level questionnaires and over 3,800 farmer questionnaires were collected. To facilitate systematic data organization and identification, the first two digits of the questionnaire codes correspond to the standard national administrative codes for provinces. The attachments are solely for the purpose of this study.