TY - JOUR
T1 - Are poverty rates underestimated in China? New evidence from four recent surveys
AU - Zhang, Chunni
AU - Xu, Qi
AU - Zhou, Xiang
AU - Zhang, Xiaobo
AU - Xie, Yu
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the Institute of Social Science Survey at Peking University for providing data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), the Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics for providing data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), the National Survey Research Center at Renmin University of China for providing data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), and the Chinese Academy of Social Science for providing data from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP). Financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 71373012 , 71350002 , and 71341002 ) is gratefully acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Knowledge of poverty prevalence is essential for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty. In this paper, we estimate and compare poverty incidence rates in China using four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2010, the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of 2010, the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) of 2011, and the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) of 2007. Using both international and official domestic poverty standards, we show that poverty rates at the national, rural, and urban levels based on the CFPS, CGSS, and the CHFS are all much higher than the official estimates and those based on the CHIP. This study highlights the importance of using independent datasets to verify official statistics of public and policy concern in contemporary China.
AB - Knowledge of poverty prevalence is essential for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty. In this paper, we estimate and compare poverty incidence rates in China using four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2010, the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of 2010, the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) of 2011, and the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) of 2007. Using both international and official domestic poverty standards, we show that poverty rates at the national, rural, and urban levels based on the CFPS, CGSS, and the CHFS are all much higher than the official estimates and those based on the CHIP. This study highlights the importance of using independent datasets to verify official statistics of public and policy concern in contemporary China.
KW - China Family Panel Studies
KW - China Household Finance Survey
KW - Chinese General Social Survey
KW - Chinese Household Income Project
KW - Poverty prevalence
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chieco.2014.05.017
DO - 10.1016/j.chieco.2014.05.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84918516885
SN - 1043-951X
VL - 31
SP - 410
EP - 425
JO - China Economic Review
JF - China Economic Review
ER -