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Title: Population by County, Census: China, 1990

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2006
  • Coverage: 1990

Publishers

  • University of Michigan. China Data Center

Summary

This polygon dataset represents county boundaries and population data in China from the 1990 Census. This dataset also includes detailed demographic data such as: sex and age statistics, litteracy, employment, professions, marital status, births, death, and immigration. These data were primarily based on the "The Administrative Maps of the People's Republic of China, published by China Map Press. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. China Data Center. University of Michigan. (2010). Population by County, Census: China, 1990. Copyright by All China Marketing Research Co., Ltd. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nv085nm6101

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Society
  • Economy
  • China
  • Counties
  • Census
  • Population
  • Sex Ratio
  • Mortality
  • Labor supply
  • Demography
  • Age distribution (Demography)
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (73.44696, 135.085831, 53.557926, 6.318641)
  • Geometry: BBOX (73.44696, 135.085831, 53.557926, 6.318641)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Zhonghua di tu xue she, University of Michigan. China Data Center, China. Guo jia tong ji ju, Beijing Hua tong ren shi chang xin xi you xian ze ren gong si. Population by County, Census: China, 1990. University of Michigan. China Data Center. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/nv085nm6101

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English