Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Notes
1 Data are from the National Bureau of Statistics, various years.
Statistical Yearbook of
China
, China Statistics Press, Beijing. The same source is used below unless specified
otherwse.
2 The definition of 'net income' is similar to 'disposable income'.
3 For references see for example, Sicular (1988), Lin (1992, 1996), Rozelle and Boisvert
(1993), Huang, Rosegrant and Rozelle (1998), and Wang (2000).
4 This is according to official statistics. However, according to the 1996 national agricultural
census data (and supported by satellite imaging data), in the past the cultivated land
area was understated by 27 per cent in the official statistics (calculated from NBS 1999,
2001). The same rato should also apply to sown areas. Adjustments are therefore made
by the author in Tables A5.1 and A5.2. After this adjustment, grain yield in China is still
significantly higher than in most developing countries.
5 Major sources for the estimation were a recent survey by the Department of Training
and Employment of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and the Rural Social
and Economic Survey team of the National Bureau of Statistical (MLSS & NBS 1999), and
National Bureau of Statistics (1991). The samples of the former survey cover 179,450 rural
labourers in all provinces except Tibet. The author assumes that all the 'floating workers'
who were workng outsde ther home county and half of those who were workng outsde
ther home town but wthn ther home county were n urban areas and were excluded
from the TVE employment statistics. The changes from 1998 to 2000 were estimated
according to the average growth rate of 'floating workers' from 1990 to 1998.
6 There were serous dscrepances between the 1990 data for the populaton and labour
force, which were from the 1990 national census, and the data before and after 1990,
whch were from the regular statstcal reports. The Natonal Statstcal Bureau made
adjustments to the population statistics before and after 1990 according to the census,
but dd not adjust the labour statstcs. The author adjusted the labour data from 1972
to 2000 according to the information from the 1953, 1964, 1982, and 1990 national census
and rural and urban birth rates, as well as the labour participation rates for each year
since the 1950s. For reference see Wang (2000b).
7 Estimated by the author (see Wang 2000b). Official statistics show a lower growth rate
of 0.5 per cent durng the same perod.
8 From a speech at the symposium 'Agriculture and Private Enterprises in China' in
Guangzhou, by Du Runsheng, the former director of the State Committee of Agriculture
and the former director of the Rural Development Research Center of the State Council,
18 December 2001.
9 Lin, Liu and Wu (2001) estimated the price elasticity of rural demand for wheat, corn,
paddy rice and beans as -0.857, -0.044, -0.155 and -0.549, respectively. The elasticities
of wheat and beans are far higher than those of corn and rice, apparently because the
former can be substtuted by cheaper grans. Ths s not the case for rce because rce
