How large is income inequality in China: assessment on different estimates of Gini coefficient

Ximing Yue, Shi Li and Xia Gao

China Economic Journal, 2013, vol. 6, issue 2-3, 113-122

Abstract: The rising income inequality in China has attracted social attentions, especially since SWUFE published the unbelievably high Gini coefficient in December 2012. In order to answer the question how large income inequality in current China is, this paper compares existing different Gini coefficients estimated from four different household surveys, which are the NBS household survey, the CHIP survey, the CHFS of SWUFE, and the CFPS of Peking University, and then assesses these household surveys themselves. The relevant evidences indicate that the national Gini coefficient in current China is between 0.47~0.52. The sampling defects of the CHFS are significantly major and that the national Gini coefficient of 0.61 published by SWUFE is seriously overestimated.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/17538963.2013.861625

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