Feed Cost Shocks and Profitability in China's Hog Supply Chain, 2015-2025

Monthly data from January 2015 to December 2025 examines the relationship between feed costs, piglet prices, and producer margins in China's hog industry. The dataset supports a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model analysis to assess profitability pressure and price dynamics. It was authored by Jinshuai Zhang and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling asymmetric price transmission between feed costs and hog prices based on the described NARDL methodology
• Analyzing producer profitability pressure using the hog-to-feed ratio indicator mentioned in the description
• Conducting time-varying cointegration analysis on hog sector outcomes using rolling-window estimation described
• Assessing the long-run relationship between piglet prices and downstream market dynamics as highlighted

Strengths

• Covers a defined 11-year monthly time series from January 2015 to December 2025
• License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting open sharing and adaptation
• File format is XLSX, a widely supported standard for tabular data

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 small (10.1 KB), suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary data

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely compiled from official or industry sources for econometric analysis, as described in the accompanying paper.

Time Range

January 2015 to December 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 05:50:49

Geography

China