[Chine Rural cross-section] Overview Preference Parameters Study of Osaka University

Outline of the Survey for the purpose of an estimation ofpreference parameters in Rural China, 2010
Purpose
Economics has a premise that people act rationally and maximize utility. However, it is not often
studied whether this premise is indeed true. The purpose of this survey is to examine whether thepremise of present-day economics that people act rationally and maximize utility is true.

Survey Period
This survey was conducted in 2010.

Survey Content
The questionnaire covers the following subjects:
1. Risk aversion, time preference, habit formation, and consumption externalities
2. Basic socio-demographic attributes of individuals and households and their budgets andexpenditures

Sample Selection
Population
Fresh samples from on-site selection

Sample sizeResidents in four main provinces (Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Liaoning) aged 20 to 69 years old.

A total of 1000 responses were collected in all. The 250 responses from each province werechosen so as to be equally distributed across sexes and ages as shown below.

Sampling areas: Suburbs of cities (Direct-controlled municipalities such as Beijing, Shanghai,Guangzhou) and dangerous places to conduct the survey (Tibet, Silla, or Yunnan) are excluded.
Included provinces are listed based on their GDP and were chosen based on their average GDP.

Number of respondents in each category for a given province:
20-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-69

Male

28

28

28

28

13125

Female

28

28

28

28

13125

Total

56

56

56

56

26250

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Sampling Method: Three-stage SamplingSchedule

Number of

Number of valid

respondents

respondentsYear2009Response ratecontacted
January 16th to 23th, 2010－－1000

Method of Choosing Areas and Surveyed Individuals
Three stages to distribute equally:
1.

Three cities from each province2.

20 to 23 surveyed individuals from each agricultural community

3.

Three to four agricultural communities from around each city

We attempted to select respondents who had attained the average standard of living in China, on thepresumption that these would be a representative sample of persons sufficiently able to understandthe questions and give valid responses. To determine standard of living of the communities we usedper-capita consumption taken from the Statistical Yearbook of China 2008, as an index ofstandard-of living.

The cities highlighted in yellow were possible candidates for the survey and those highlighted ingreen are from the previous survey. This list excludes any cities where it was deemed to be too
difficult to conduct the survey.

Province

GDP(100 mil CNY)

Hunan(Central China

11563.12

Area)

CityGDP(100 mil CNY)

Changsha

3000.98

Yueyang1105.74

Changde1049.70

Hengyang

1000.09

Zhuzhou

909.50Chenzhou734.10

Xiangtan654.76

Yongzhou592.68

Shaoyang

561.57

Loudi

528.40

Yiyang511.28Huaihua

503.68

Xiangxi

226.66

Zhangjiajie

183.982GDP Average
825.93

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Province

GDP(100 mil CNY)

Hubei(Central China

8989.49

Area)

City
Wuhan

3141.90

Yichang

820.90

Xiangyang

758.45

Jingzhou

519.63

Xiaogan

480.79Huanggang473.74

Huanghi466.68

Jingmen420.08

Shiyan411.42

Xianning

286.75

Suizhou

257.62

Enshi Tujia

210.35Ezhou

208.71

Xiantao

190.40

Qianjiang

156.63

Tianmen151.48

Shennongjia

Province

GDP(100 mil CNY)

Sichuan(North West10721.94

Area)

GDP(100 mil CNY)

City

528.796.96

GDP(100 mil CNY)

Chengdu3324.17

Mianyang

673.50Mianyang

648.40

Yibin

529.05Dazhou510.41

Nanchong

508.13

Leshan452.97

Liangshan Yi

450.58Autonomous
Prefecture
Luzhou403.90

Zigong394.15

Neijiang

374.61

Ziyang373.97

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Panzhihua

345.26Meishan343.75

Guang'an

338.84

Suining

304.95

Guangyuan

208.46

Yaan

176.75Bazhong176.12

Ngawa Tibetan and105.10

Qiang Autonomous
PrefectureGarzê Tibetan

78.87

Autonomous
Prefecture

Province

GDP(100 mil CNY)

Liaoning(North East12541.50

Area)

CityGDP(100 mil CNY)

Shenyang

3177.00

Dalian3055.00

Anshan1350.00

Yingkou

556.00Panjin553.60Jinzhou

551.90Fushun547.00Benxi

475.60

Liaoyang

470.00Dandong462.00

Huludao419.70Tieling405.00Chaoyang

325.10Fuxin

193.60GDP Average895.82

Four agricultural villages were randomely selected from areas aound the deginated cities. First, an
area around each city was divided into four divisions: North, South, East and West. One agriculturalvillage was selected from each division. If there were two villages in close proximity to four otherselected villages, one of the two villages was cancelled and an alternative target again seclected from4

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the same division. See the map (sampling from the surveyed agricultural villages) for the location ofeach city.

20 to 23 target respondents were selected in each selected agricultural village. Interviewers visited
all houses in agricultural areas and requested participation in the survey. A target was selected by theKish Grid Method. If the survey individual was absent, the interviewer would make an appointment
to visit again later.

In addition to the above, another 250 reponses were collected from each province, balanced acrossgenders and ages as equally as possible within each village. When the necessary number ofresponses were collected, no more responses from persons of the same genders or ages weresolicited.

Survey method
Visiting and interviewing respondents.

Survey Implementation
Nikkei Research Inc.

Sampling Weight
Sampling weights are not available for this dataset.

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