Sampling Design

China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) is the first national, representative, longitudinal survey of junior-high students in China. The baseline survey was conducted in the 2013-2014 school year. The survey applied a multistage sampling method with probabilities proportional to size (PPS), capsulized in the following table. For details, see the linked pdf file.

Stage

Procedure

Primary

Select 28 PSUs from a total of 2,870 counties/districts with PPS

Secondary

Select 4 schools from all schools serving 7th and/or 9th grades

from each sample county/district with PPS

Third

Randomly select 2 classrooms from 7th grade and 2 from 9th

grade in each sample school

Final

Include all students attending school on the survey date in the

selected classrooms




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