Chinese Residents' Financial Strain, Health, and Medical Preferences from 2021 Survey

Data from the 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS) analyzes the relationship between financial strain and health outcomes, digital health reliance, and medical system preferences. The study uses OLS regression on two sub-samples of working-age respondents (N = 623 and N = 592). The dataset is a 34.0 KB DOCX file authored by Hejing Zhang and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between financial strain and preventative health investments based on survey variables.
• Analyzing the link between resource scarcity and reliance on internet-based health resources as described.
• Investigating preferences for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) relative to financial strain.
• Studying multi-dimensional well-being outcomes related to economic stress in a non-Western context.

Strengths

• Data originates from the established 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS).
• Analysis is based on two specific sub-sample sizes (N = 623 and N = 592).
• Released under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

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 very small (34.0 KB), suggesting it may contain summary results or a document rather than raw survey data.

Provenance

Source

2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS)

Collection Method

Survey data analyzed using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 05:45:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China