Chinese Fertility Intentions from Weibo Posts, 2015-2023

45,810 Chinese-language Weibo posts analyzed for public opinion on fertility intentions using LLMs and weighted sentiment analysis. The dataset, authored by Xiaoning Wang and updated in March 2026, tracks sentiment changes from 2015 to 2023. It identifies core influencing factors including policy changes, economic pressures, and cultural shifts.

Use Cases

• Analyzing sentiment trends toward fertility policies based on weighted sentiment analysis of social media posts.
• Identifying key topics influencing public opinion based on LDA topic modeling results.
• Monitoring changes in fertility intentions over time based on the 2015-2023 temporal analysis.
• Evaluating the impact of specific factors like economic pressure or work-life balance based on the identified core factors.

Strengths

• 45,810 social media posts provide a substantial text corpus for analysis.
• Analysis covers a nine-year time range from 2015 to 2023.
• Methodology includes advanced techniques like LLM-assisted noise removal and weighted sentiment analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data is contained within a PDF report, which may require extraction to access raw text.
• Row count for the underlying data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Analysis of Weibo posts using Large Language Models for noise removal and weighted sentiment analysis.

Time Range

2015-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 06:34:53; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China