| Variable names | Code | Definition and assignment | Observed quantities | Mean |
| Full-time equivalent of science and technology talent | y1 | Scientific and technological personnel The sum of the workload of full-time personnel (personnel engaged in scientific and technological activities during the year whose cumulative working time accounts for 90% or more of the total working time) and the workload of part-time personnel converted according to the actual working time. The data should be processed correctly | 21 | 166175.8 |
| Number of talents in science and technology activities | y2 | Scientific and technological activities personnel refer to those who are directly engaged in scientific and technological activities, as well as those who are engaged in the management of scientific and technological activities and those who provide direct services for scientific and technological activities. Do the right processing of data | 26 | 404102.9 |
| Marketization level | mark | Share of private employment (employment in the private sector/number of people employed); And correct data processing | 26 | 22.66 |
| Financial development | fin | The proportion of RMB domestic loans (RMB domestic loans/GDP); And correct the data | 26 | 182.85 |
| Open to the public | open | Share of foreign direct investment (FDI/GDP); And get the data right | 26 | 4.83 |
| Infrastructure construction | inf | Kilometres operated by public transport; And correct data processing | 26 | 14580.65 |
| Medical Resources | med | Number of hospital beds per 1000 registered population; And correct data processing | 26 | 6.29 |
| Educational Resources | edu | Number of students enrolled in schools by type; And matching the data | 26 | 2,778,923 |
| Cultural Resources | cul | Total number of collections of library books; Data matching process | 26 | 3763.96 |
| Policy Support | pol | Share of government expenditure (government expenditure/GDP); And get the data right | 26 | 17.7 |
| Level of economic development | gdp | The gdp deflator is obtained using 1978 as the base period; And the data are treated correctly | 26 | 436.06 |
| Quality of economic development | tfp | The tfp was estimated according to Zhang Jun et al., and the Malmquist total factor productivity index was estimated based on DEA method; And the data are processed correctly | 26 | 1.02 |