Farmer Survey on Carbon Policy and Forest Land Use in Fujian Province

Fujian Province survey data from 411 farmers analyzes factors influencing willingness to utilize idle forest land. The study, authored by Yunshu Tan, found 74.6% of surveyed farmers were willing to participate, linking this to perceptions of carbon financial, fiscal, tax, and sink price policies.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between farmers' perceived effectiveness of carbon financial policies and their willingness to utilize forest land.
• Model the impact of years of education and number of family laborers on participation willingness using binary probit analysis.
• Investigate how family non-farm income and accessibility to transportation show a negative association with willingness.
• Examine the statistically insignificant effects of variables like gender, age, occupation, forestry business activities, and subsidies on participation decisions.

Strengths

• Survey data from 411 farmers provides a defined sample size for analysis.
• Explicit finding that 74.6% of surveyed farmers are willing to utilize idle forest land.
• Analysis identifies multiple statistically significant policy factors (carbon financial, fiscal, tax, sink price) and farmer characteristics (education, family laborers, land quality).
• Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 31.9 KB, likely containing summary analysis rather than raw tabular data.
• Unknown column structure and sample data limit direct machine learning application.
• Findings are geographically specific to Fujian Province, China, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Yunshu Tan.

Collection Method

Survey data from 411 farmers in Fujian Province.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Fujian Province, China.