Explaining the Trust Paradox: How Foreign Media Strengthens Government Confidence via Political–Economic Awareness in China

This repository contains the replication-ready survey dataset used in Zhao & Liu (2025): *Explaining the Trust Paradox: How Foreign Media Strengthens Government Confidence via Political–Economic Awareness in China*. * `data.csv` – Cleaned respondent-level dataset (N = 3,788; 110 variables) used for all analyses reported in the article. Personally identifiable information has been removed in compliance with the CNSDA license.* `codebook.pdf` – Variable names, wording, scales, and basic descriptive statistics. *(to be added by uploader if needed)* The dataset originates from the publicly available "2021 Internet Users' Social Awareness Survey" released by the Chinese National Survey Data Archive (CNSDA). We performed basic cleaning (variable renaming, numeric recoding, and removal of direct identifiers). Cleaning scripts are available upon request.本仓库收录了Zhao与Liu（2025）的学术论文《信任悖论的解释：外国媒体如何通过中国公众的政治经济意识提升政府信任度》（*Explaining the Trust Paradox: How Foreign Media Strengthens Government Confidence via Political–Economic Awareness in China*）中所使用的可复现调查数据集。 - `data.csv`：已清洗的受访者级数据集（样本量N=3788，共110个变量），用于支撑论文中报告的全部分析工作；已依照中国全国调查数据档案库（Chinese National Survey Data Archive, CNSDA）的许可要求，移除了所有个人可识别信息。 - `codebook.pdf`：包含变量名称、题项表述、量表设置及基础描述性统计结果（若有需要，可由上传者补充完善）。 该数据集源自中国全国调查数据档案库（CNSDA）公开发布的《2021年互联网用户社会意识调查》。我们对原始数据开展了基础清洗工作，包括变量重命名、数值重新编码及直接标识符移除；清洗脚本可按需索取。