Table 1 Data sources.

From: The impact of rural settlement expansion on educational accessibility: a patch-scale study based on 2867 Chinese counties from 2000 to 2020

Type

Date and resolution

Source

NLUD-C

2000, 2020

Resource and Environmental Science and Data Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (https://www.resdc.cn/)

Education facilities

2000, 2020

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

Roads

2020

National Earth Systems Science Data Center of the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (www.geodata.cn)

Administrative boundaries

Government locations

DEM

2000, 30 m

ASTER GDEM, http://www.gscloud.cn/search

Socioeconomic data

2000,2020

National Bureau of Statistics, http://www.stats.gov.cn/