 An Estimate of the Standard of Living in ChinaC. G. Dittmer The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1918, vol. 33, issue 1, 107-128 Abstract: I. Purpose: bearing on other investigations and an example of real economic pressure, 107. — II. Source of data: investigations made at Tsing Hua College, Peking, China, 108. — III. Limitations: an intensive survey of one district and not necessarily typical of the whole country, 110. — IV. Classes represented: Chinese and Manchu villagers, 112. — V. Tables: five tables classifying incomes, average amount expended for various purposes, per cent expended for various purposes, and sundry other items by expenditure groups, 113. — VI. Analysis of tables, 119. — VII. General conclusions, 122. — VIII. Comparison with other investigations: Engel, Mrs. More, Chapin, and the United States Bureau of Labor, 123. — IX. How it is done: the maintenance of a starvation standard, 124. — X. The cost, 127. — Figure I: a comparison of the extremes of variation in the percentage of expenditure for various purposes between the highest and the lowest income groups in five well known investigations, 123. — Figure II: a comparison of the percentage and average expenditures of 195 Chinese and Manchu families, 126. Date: 1918 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:33:y:1918:i:1:p:107-128. Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article The Quarterly Journal of Economics is currently edited by Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva More articles in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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