Chinese Provincial Sports Policies for Older Adults, 2015-2024

Fangyang Zhang's dataset contains policy reinvention coefficients and fsQCA results from analyzing 109 central and provincial policy documents on sports for older adults in China. The data covers documents issued between 2015 and 2024, with analysis periodized by the 13th and 14th Five-Year Plan stages. It was last updated on 2026-05-29.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the degree of local policy reinvention based on text similarity coefficients.
• Examining causal configurations for high policy reinvention using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) results.
• Studying the evolution of policy adaptation mechanisms across different Five-Year Plan stages.
• Investigating the relationship between provincial conditions like fiscal expenditure, aging population, and policy outcomes.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on 109 policy documents, providing a defined corpus.
• Temporal coverage spans 2015 to 2024, aligned with two Five-Year Plan stages.
• Uses multiple analytical methods: TF-IDF cosine similarity and fsQCA.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 15.1 KB, indicating limited scope or highly summarized data.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its focus on Chinese provincial governments.

Provenance

Source

Fangyang Zhang via figshare.

Collection Method

Text analysis of 109 central and provincial policy documents using TF-IDF cosine similarity and fsQCA.

Time Range

2015 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 06:11:34; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (provincial-level governments)