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

Panel data from Chinese inter-provincial border cities tracks the relationship between digital-economy development and air quality from 2014 to 2023. Author Huifu Li published the dataset on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. Empirical results from the study indicate the digital economy significantly improves air quality, with stronger effects in non-contiguous, poverty-stricken areas.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of digital-economy development on air quality based on panel data from Chinese border cities
• Study spatial-spillover effects of economic activity on cross-regional pollution diffusion mentioned in the description
• Investigate mechanisms like regional market segmentation and environmental regulatory capacity on pollution outcomes
• Model air-quality trends in border regions to assess 'pollution haven' dynamics during industrial transformation

Strengths

• Data covers a 10-year time range from 2014 to 2023
• Focus on Chinese inter-provincial border cities provides a specific geographic scope for analysis
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse

Limitations

• Dataset size is only 5.5 KB, suggesting a very limited scope or highly aggregated data
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling

Provenance

Source

Huifu Li via figshare

Collection Method

Likely compiled for a research study analyzing digital economy and air quality

Time Range

2014 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 17:43:39; freshness should be verified

Geography

Chinese inter-provincial border cities