The data includes the gender, age, social security, education level, labor force and employment status of household members in 1280 families at domestic and abroad, which is used to support the analysis of human capital and livelihood Strategy in sustainable livelihoods. The field survey data is collected by the research group. Before collecting the data, the research group and the invited experts conducted a pretest to improve the questionnaire; before the formal survey, the members participating in the data collection were strictly trained; during the formal survey, each questionnaire could be filed after three times of inspection. The data is of great value to understand the human capital, livelihood strategies and demographic characteristics of farmers in the vulnerable areas of environment and economy, and is an important supplement to the national and macro data in this area.

File naming and required software

File name: the data is stored in Excel format, and the name of the file is "digital and human" capital.xls ”, variable names are listed.
Data reading method: Excel, Stata and SPSS are recommended to read and analyze data.

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Linxiu, Z., Bai, Y. (2021). Dataset of sustainable livelihood: Demographic, human capital, and employment (2018). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Socioeco.tpdc.271139. CSTR: 18406.11.Socioeco.tpdc.271139. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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Support Program

Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road-A CAS Strategic Priority A Program (No:XDA20000000)

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