China Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration 2007-2008
General Info
The Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China 2007-2008 is a follow-up survey to the China Household Income Project 2002. This round was a data collection combined multiple surveys and was referred to as the China Household Income Project (CHIP) and the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC). It consisted of urban and rural household surveys and an urban-rural migrant survey. The purpose of this project was to gather socioeconomic data on urban-rural and migrant households.
Data were collected through in-person interviews with households in urban and rural areas within China. Migrant households were interviewed within the provinces of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan. A community questionnaire was also used in urban and rural areas. The sample size was 8,000 rural households, 5,000 urban households, and 5,000 migrant households in rural and urban areas.