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Table 1

Variables and statistical descriptions

Level	Definitions	Units	Obs.	Mean	Std. dev.	Min	Max
Accessibility	Internet broadband penetration (Number of Internet subscribers divided by the total number of households in cities)	%	2,583	50.391	42.955	0.02	328.639
Accessibility	Cell phone penetration (Number of mobile phone subscribers divided by the total number of households in cities)	%	2,631	257.621	142.611	17.482	1194.678
Usage	Per capita urban disposable income	CNY	2,715	23428.922	9290.727	7,653	64,886
Usage	Per capita financial investment in education	thousand CNY	2,476	1.269	0.712	0.152	9.824
Usage	School student population ratio	%	2,412	16.674	4.296	7.755	34.393
Impact	Per capita business income from telecommunications	CNY	2,449	8.24	8.597	0.341	131.698
Impact	Number of patent applications per 1,000 persons	Piece	2,455	0.861	1.384	0.002	14.011
Impact	Number of employees in the information transmission computer services and software industry per 10,000 people	Person	2,460	1.27	1.368	0.02	18.356
Control variable	ln(GDP)	ln(Billion CNY)	2,716	4.636	0.872	1.822	7.392
Control variable	ln(Urban resident population)	ln(thousand Person)	2,478	8.083	0.665	5.447	9.422
Control Variable	Urbanization rate(the proportion of urban residents to total population)	%	2,684	50.096	14.701	16.413	100

Level	Definitions	Units	Obs.	Mean	Std. dev.	Min	Max
Accessibility	Internet broadband penetration (Number of Internet subscribers divided by the total number of households in cities)	%	2,583	50.391	42.955	0.02	328.639
Accessibility	Cell phone penetration (Number of mobile phone subscribers divided by the total number of households in cities)	%	2,631	257.621	142.611	17.482	1194.678
Usage	Per capita urban disposable income	CNY	2,715	23428.922	9290.727	7,653	64,886
Usage	Per capita financial investment in education	thousand CNY	2,476	1.269	0.712	0.152	9.824
Usage	School student population ratio	%	2,412	16.674	4.296	7.755	34.393
Impact	Per capita business income from telecommunications	CNY	2,449	8.24	8.597	0.341	131.698
Impact	Number of patent applications per 1,000 persons	Piece	2,455	0.861	1.384	0.002	14.011
Impact	Number of employees in the information transmission computer services and software industry per 10,000 people	Person	2,460	1.27	1.368	0.02	18.356
Control variable	ln(GDP)	ln(Billion CNY)	2,716	4.636	0.872	1.822	7.392
Control variable	ln(Urban resident population)	ln(thousand Person)	2,478	8.083	0.665	5.447	9.422
Control Variable	Urbanization rate(the proportion of urban residents to total population)	%	2,684	50.096	14.701	16.413	100

Source(s): Authors' own work