Impact of a Rural Healthcare Policy on Village Clinics in Sichuan, China (2014-2023)

A dataset of 1,800 county-year observations from rural Sichuan, China, used to analyze the impact of the compact county medical service community policy. The data covers the period 2014 to 2023 and was sourced from provincial statistical yearbooks. The analysis was conducted by Meng Li using a staggered difference-in-differences propensity score matching method.

Use Cases

• Evaluating policy impact on healthcare worker density based on reported increases per 1,000 rural population.
• Analyzing changes in healthcare service utilization based on reported consultation and emergency visit rates.
• Studying the optimization of clinic infrastructure based on reported changes in the number of village clinics.

Strengths

• Data covers a 10-year period from 2014 to 2023, providing a longitudinal view.
• Analysis is based on 1,800 county-year observations from a defined geographic region.
• The study design uses a rigorous staggered difference-in-differences propensity score matching method.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small at 360.2 KB, indicating limited scope or aggregated summary data.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

Sichuan Health Statistics Yearbooks and Sichuan Statistical Yearbooks.

Collection Method

Aggregated from official provincial yearbooks for analysis.

Time Range

2014-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 05:25:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rural counties in Sichuan province, China.