Data of the CLHLS in 2005-2014  is available at Peking University's open data platform. Interested readers can visit the following website: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.18170/DVN/XRV2WN.  After registering as a member of the open data platform, users can apply for data of the CLHLS. On approved, users can download the data freely.

The supplemental .zip archive for this publication contains the following Stata do-files. All files were created using Version 14 and may not be compatible with earlier versions. 
1. Stata program file to produce variables for CLHLS 2005
      2005.do
      Respondent's basic demographic variables, socioeconomic variables, health variables, actual and prefered living arrangement, intergenerational contacts are generated for the       CLHLS 2005.  All the variables are saved in a Stata data file named 2005.  

2. Stata program file to produce variables for CLHLS 2008
      2008.do 
      Respondent's basic demographic variables, socioeconomic variables, health variables, actual and prefered living arrangement, intergenerational contacts are generated for the             CLHLS 2008.  All the variables are saved in a Stata data file named 2008.

3. Stata program file to produce variables for CLHLS 2011
      2011.do
      Respondent's basic demographic variables, socioeconomic variables, health variables, actual and prefered living arrangement, intergenerational contacts are generated for the               CLHLS 2011.  All the variables are saved in a Stata data file named 2011.

4. Stata program file to produce variables for CLHLS 2014
      2014.do 
      Respondent's basic demographic variables, socioeconomic variables, health variables, actual and prefered living arrangement, intergenerational contacts are generated for the               CLHLS 2014.  All the variables are saved in a Stata data file named 2014.

5. Stata program file to merge CLHLS 2005-2014 and produce results of descriptive analysis and fixed-effects models
      merge2005-2014.do 
      This do-file is used to combine the data files created by the first 4 do-files and produce results of descriptive analysis and fixed-effects models.