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VariableDescription
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YearYear of observation
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ProvinceChinese municipality, province, or autonomous region
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Internet UsersProvincial number of internet users, measured in tens of thousands
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Penetration RateProvincial internet penetration rate
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Source
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1CNNIC Annual Reports, 1997 - 2014
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2National Bureau of Statistics of China, Provincial Population Levels, 1997-2002
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3Library of Congress access, National Bureau of Statistics of China Statistitical Yearbooks
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4Duxiu Database access, National Bureau of Statistics of China Statistical Yearbooks
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Data Notes
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1Before 2002, internet penetration rate data was not reported in CNNIC published documents. This data has been estimated from the provincial proportion of total internet users as listed in the annual CNNIC report multiplied by the year-end provincial population, as determined by the National Bureau of Statistics of China Statistical Yearbook. This definition is provided here: "The annual statistics on total population is taken at midnight, the 3lst of December, not including residents in Taiwan province, Chinese compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao and overseas Chinese."
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2National Bureau of Statistics of China provincial population could not be downloaded from the website before 2000. We have used statistics taken from the Library of Congress' hard copy collection of NBSC volumes.
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3The Municipality of Chongqing was not created until 1997. For the year of 1997, the data from Chongqing is incorporated in the data for Sichuan Province.
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SOURCE:
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China Internet Network Information Center
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https://cnnic.com.cn/IDR/
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