County-Level Crime and Rainfall Panel Data for Hunan Province, 2014-2018

Hunan Province, China, provides the geographic scope for this panel dataset. It contains county and city-level data on criminal offenses, extreme rainfall events, and socio-economic indicators from 2014 to 2018. Author Dongshui Zhang created this 5.5 KB dataset to analyze the impact of heavy rainfall on crime rates.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between rainfall duration and crime rates based on the described panel data model.
• Analyzing spatial autocorrelation of crime in agricultural regions like Ningxiang and Dongkou based on the description.
• Investigating how socio-economic factors like GDP per capita and population mobility moderate climate impacts based on the described mechanisms.

Strengths

• Data covers a 5-year time range (2014-2018) for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes multiple data types: crime, climate, and socio-economic indicators as described.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope or aggregated summary statistics.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely compiled from official county and city records in Hunan Province.

Time Range

2014-2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:24:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Counties and cities in Hunan Province, China.