PEOPLE’S LIVELIHOOD AND PRICES

Brief  Introduction

The data in this chapter show the livelihood of urban and rural households, including basic statistics on urban and rural households, engle coefficient, saving deposits, and annual income and expenditures and their compositions, purchases of major commodities, possession of durable consumer goods, consumer price indices, retail price indices, purchasing price indices of raw material, fuel and power, ex-factory price indices of industrial products and so on. The data on urban and rural households are collected by the sample surveys. The data on price are collected with the directed method.

The data on the livelihood of urban and rural residents come from NBS Survey Office in Chongqing. Data on material & cultural life and saving deposits of urban & rural residents are edited by Division of Comprehensive Statistics, Municipal Bureau of Statistics.