This readme.txt file was generated by Zheng Mu in January 2024. Title of Dataset: Data for "Arranged Cohabitation among Chinese Muslims" Author Information Zheng Mu Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore, 117570 Singapore Qing Lai Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, Florida University, Miami, Florida 33199 United States Yu Xie Paul and Marcia Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 United States Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Date of data collection: 2007 - 2023-11 Description: This dataset encompasses three distinct sets of data analyzed in the study, namely the survey data on cohabitation in Gansu, China, the census data on underage births and premarital births in China, and the survey data on underage births in China. The first part of the dataset comprises the analysis shown in Figure 2 and Table 1, which is collected from the 2007 Developmental Idealism Survey in Gansu, China. The second part of the datasets provides information used in Table 2 and Supplementary Materials 7, involving the China census data in 2000. The third part of the datasets provides information used in Supplementary Materials 7, involving the 2010 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Recommended citation for the data: Mu, Z., Lai, Q., & Xie, Y. (2024). Data for "Arranged Cohabitation among Chinese Muslims" [Data set]. Princeton University. https://doi.org/10.34770/7vd4-nb84 Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: This data is available at yuxie.com (https://yuxie.scholar.princeton.edu/share-files/data-files-arranged-cohabitation-among-chinese-muslims) and Princeton DataSpace. The Census 2000 data are from IPUMS data bank hosted by the Minnesota Population Center on Feb 26, 2021, cited as below: Minnesota Population Center. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International: Version 7.3 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2020. https://doi.org/10.18128/D020.V7.3 The CFPS, conducted by Peking University, is a nationally representative, longitudinal, comprehensive, and biennial social survey started in 2010.