Coming soon: The Atlas of Religions in China
In collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics of China and the All China Marketing Research Co., Ltd, the University of Michigan China Data Center is planning to release the “Atlas of Religions in China” which will be available on late March, 2010.
This GIS based data product has integrated those official religious data from the 2004 China Economic Census and the ZIP maps of Mainland China. The atlas provides a total of about 70,000 religious sites (Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Muslim, and others) on Mainland China. Each site includes site name, address, contact information, County GB Code, postcode, starting year, primary activities, and employee scale.
The GIS map is in Shape format, which is compatible with most GIS software for easy mapping and analysis. All variables are in English and Chinese.
“The Atlas of Religions in China” will be the first atlas on religions in China, which marks another milestone on the development of spatial data of China along with several other China GIS data products released by the China Data Center, including “China 2000 Province Population Census Data with GIS Maps”, “China 2000 County Population Census Data with GIS Maps”, “China 2000 Township Population Census Data with GIS Maps”,”China Population GRID Data with Township Boundary Maps”, “China 2004 Economic Census Data with ZIP Maps”, “China Historical County Population Census Data with GIS Maps” and “China City Statistical Indicators with Maps”
For more information, click The Atlas of Religions in China.
Please contact China Data Center at (734) 647-9610 or chinadata@umich.edu for more details