namely NEAM and HSS disciplines, to do some in-depth analysis into the each
category respectively.^1
According to the announcement of China Ministry of Education, there are 112
universities titled“211 Project”Universities (or 211Us). Considering that North
China Electric Power University, China University of Mining Technology, China
University of Geosciences, and China University of Petroleum, all these 4 uni-
versities, have more than one operation entities, we count the total number of 211Us
as 116. However, in our research process, the sample size is reduced to less than
116, some cases are excluded due to two reasons:first, according to the proposed
evaluation indicator system, there are missing values on some indicators in several
universities during 2006–2010; second, considering the consistency and integrality
of our research, the sample size of this chapter should match the sample for effi-
ciency evaluation by DEA method and productivity evaluation by Malmquist index
in the following chapters. Both DEA and Malmquist index methods require higher
quality data, and do not allow for missing values in selected variables. Thus, the
selection of sample keeps out those universities lack of input or output data in
NEAM or HSS disciplines, which are unsuitable for modeling.
Next, we will briefly introduce the sample universities by NEAM and HSS
categories separately. (The list of the universities is presented in Table3.33and
3.34in Appendix).
3.1.1.1 Sample of NEAM Disciplines
As mentioned before, there are 116 universities counted as 211Us in the following
analysis. While our NEAM sample includes only 100 universities in the chapter, the
excluded cases are:
- 3 universities which partly contain missing values in “China Statistical
Yearbook on University Science and Technology” (2006–2010): Minzu
University of China, Tibet University, China University of Political Science and
Law. - 13 universities which are not documented in“China Statistical Yearbook on
University Science and Technology”(2006–2010): University of International
Business and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Central
Conservatory of Music, Beijing Sport University, Beijing Foreign Studies
University, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai University of
Finance and Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law,
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, North China Electric
Power University at Baoding City, Second Military Medical University, Forth
Military Medical University, National University of Defense Technology.
(^1) In the remaining chapters, we will follow this approach, to do the analysis subject to the two
categories, NEAM and HSS disciplines respectively.
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