China Data Post

I recently downloaded data from the CFPS, so I figured I would share my findings. Analysis code here.

Correlation (r) between income and verbal/math composite score by birth province:

Race Science

difference between han and dongxiang depression: p < .001

difference between han and dongxiang IQ: p < .001

difference between han and dongxiang BMI: p < .05

difference between han and miao BMI: p < .001

difference between han and miao depression: p < .001

difference between han and miao height: p < .001

difference between han and bai depression: p > .1

difference between han and mongolian BMI: p < .001

difference between han and tibetan height: p < .1

difference between han and tibetan IQ: p < .001

difference between han and yi height: p < .001

difference between han and man height: p < .05

difference between han and bouyei depression: p < .001

Organizations (only within men):

Communist vs None depression: p < .001

Communist vs None BMI: p < .001

Democrat vs None IQ: p = .012

Correlation between respondent’s educational attainment and spouse’s:

Assortative mating for education (r) by birthplace:

Average IQ of child by father’s political affiliation:

% of fathers who are Communists by province:

Update: there are other cognitive tests in the followups, which are not verbal/math based. They have smaller race/province difference, probably because they are less g-loaded and are less affected by illiteracy (about ~10% score at the lowest due to this in both measures).

I redid some analysis of IQ related measures, not using maps as they no longer work, for whatever reason. Overall, I got the same results.

Average IQ by province (average forced to 104):

IQ by race:

Father political party and IQ: