Hao Lingxin, Wang Weidong, Xie Guihua
Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
Department of Sociology, Renmin University of China.
Econ Polit Stud. 2014;2(2):151-177. doi: 10.1080/20954816.2014.11673849. Epub 2016 Feb 19.
Rural panel surveys are the most appropriate means to provide data for studying the unprecedented rapid migration and urbanization currently taking place in China and other developing countries. To maximize heterogeneity in urbanization and development over the last three decades, we selected rural panel surveys from five Asian countries, including India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, and China. This paper provides a selective review, focusing on their panel survey methodology, which is organized based on our proposed four basics of panel surveys - representativeness, retrospect-prospect, multilevel tracking, and temporality. We analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the selected panel surveys to provide directions for designing future rural panel studies in China and elsewhere in the developing world.
农村面板调查是为研究中国和其他发展中国家目前正在发生的前所未有的快速迁移和城市化提供数据的最合适手段。为了使过去三十年城市化和发展的异质性最大化，我们从五个亚洲国家（包括印度、印度尼西亚、尼泊尔、泰国和中国）选取了农村面板调查。本文进行了选择性综述，重点关注其面板调查方法，该方法是根据我们提出的面板调查的四个基本要素——代表性、回顾与展望、多层次跟踪和时间性来组织的。我们分析了所选面板调查的优缺点，为中国和发展中世界其他地区未来农村面板研究的设计提供指导。
