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Chinese Survey Research Data: |
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| China Health and Nutrition Survey (UNC) | 1989-2004, Longitudinal Survey in Selected Provinces |
| Life History and Social Changes in Contemporary China (UCLA) | 1996, National Representative Survey, N=6090 |
| Chinese General Social Survey (HKUST) | 2003- National Representative Survey, N=10,000 |
| Other China Data Through Michigan ICPSR (Michigan) | 1988, 1995 China Income Projects (CHIP Data) |
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Comparative Social Research Data |
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| East European after 1989 (UCLA) | For Transition |
| Vietnamese Longitudinal Survey (U Washington) | For Transition |
| Russian Longitudinal Survey | For Transition |
| Taiwan Social Change Survey (Academica Sinica) | For What? |
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PISA Data (Education Dept) |
For Comparative Education |
| TIMSS Data (Education Dept) | For Comparative Education |
| National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS88) | For Comparative Education |
| Luxemburg Income Study(LIS) | For Cross-national Income Inequality |
| World Income Inequality | For Cross-national Income Inequality |
| International Study of Social Mobility (Ganzeboom and Treiman) | For Comparative Social Mobility |
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Panel Studies of Income Dynamics (Michigan) |
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| National Opinion Research Center (Chicago) | ...... |
| US National Longitudinal Surveys (Labor Dept.) | |
| Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (Wisconsin) | |
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| International Social Survey Program | |
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| World Bank Survey Networks | |
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| Research Funding | |
| US National Academy of Education | |
| Hong Kong Research Grants Council | |
| Research Links and References | |
| HKUST Center for Spatial and Social Demographics | Michigan Population Studies Center |
| UCLA California Center for Population Research |
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| ISI Knowledge Citation | Sociological Journal Influence |
A man who is a mathematician and nothing but a mathematician may live a stunted life, but he does not do any harm. An economist who is nothing but an economist is a danger to his neighbors. Economics is not a thing in itself; it is a study of one aspect of the life of a man in a society... Modern economics is subject to a real danger of Machiavellism- the treatment of social problems as matters of technique, not as facets of the general search for Good Life. (Sir John Hicks, 1941).
Economists reason correctly from false premises; sociologists reason incorrectly from true premises. Thus they create two complementary bodies of ignorance. (Dudley Duncan, 2003).
Comparative sociology is not a particular branch of sociology; it is sociology itself, in so far as it ceases to be purely descriptive and aspires to account for facts (Emile Durkheim The Rules of Sociological Methodology).