RIWI provides subscriptions to a suite of continuous, unique, reliable data series in China, across a range of geopolitical, political, and economic topics. The data are both time and location stamped. They are gathered using RIWI’s web-intercept technologies which ensure broad reach far beyond paid, habitual survey takers: 60 percent of RIWI’s China respondents report never taking a survey before. RIWI’s method leverages hundreds of thousands of dynamic source points at which it intercepts people online. This ensures broad coverage throughout all parts of the country, including tier 3 and 4 cities. It additionally minimizes the chances of bias and bots, and prevents blockage by state censors.
Data series include views on government policies, consumer spending, travel intentions, and views on the China-Taiwan conflict. RIWI’s data series often include politically sensitive questions, for which RIWI employs heightened security procedures.
China is becoming increasingly opaque about its economic performance, quietly discontinuing thousands of statistical series since President Xi assumed power back in 2012, as John Burns-Murdoch writes in the Financial...
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