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

Panel data from Chinese inter-provincial border cities spanning 2014 to 2023, used to analyze the impact of digital-economy development on air quality. The dataset, shared by Huifu Li on figshare, includes descriptive statistics of variables. The study finds the digital economy improves air quality, especially in non-contiguous, poverty-stricken areas, and exhibits positive spatial-spillover effects.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between digital-economy development and air-quality metrics based on the described panel structure
• Analyzing spatial-spillover effects of economic policies on pollution in adjacent regions based on the described mechanism
• Investigating how regional market segmentation and environmental regulatory capacity mediate air-quality outcomes based on the described analysis

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

Limitations

• Dataset size is only 5.5 KB, indicating very limited scope
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Huifu Li via figshare

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official Chinese statistical sources or environmental monitoring data, as suggested by the study's empirical analysis.

Time Range

2014 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 17:43:37; freshness should be verified

Geography

Chinese inter-provincial border cities