General Data Quality Assessment of the CLHLS

This chapter provides a comprehensive review of data quality of the third wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) in 2002 in terms of proxy use, nonresponse rate, sample attrition, and reliability and validity of major health measures. The results show that the data quality of the 2002 wave of the CLHLS is generally good. Some recommendations in use of the dataset are provided.

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