Chinese Inter-Provincial Border City Air Quality and Digital Economy Panel Data, 2014-2023

Panel data from Chinese inter-provincial border cities from 2014 to 2023 analyzes the impact of digital-economy development on air quality. Author Huifu Li published the dataset on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license, last updated in May 2026. The study's empirical results suggest the digital economy improves air quality, particularly in non-contiguous, poverty-stricken areas.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between digital-economy development and air quality based on panel data from Chinese border cities.
• Investigating spatial-spillover effects of economic activity on pollution in adjacent regions based on the described mechanism.
• Modeling the impact of regional market segmentation on environmental outcomes based on the described analysis.
• Assessing environmental tracking and regulatory capacity improvements linked to digital economy growth.

Strengths

• Data covers a 10-year time range from 2014 to 2023.
• Focus on a specific geographic context: Chinese inter-provincial border cities.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small at 362.1 KB, indicating a limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese statistical and environmental monitoring sources.

Time Range

2014 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 17:43:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chinese inter-provincial border cities