Institutional Constraints on China’s Population Statistics

Songlin Yang
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Songlin Yang: Henan Provincial Development Research Center

Chapter Chapter 8 in Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally, 2021, pp 135-146 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The author investigates further into the institutional and systemic constraints on China’s official population statistics that relied largely on the household registration system. In particular, Yang questions the credibility of the retrospective Marriage and Fertility Survey conducted by the State Family Planning Commission in 1982 and challenges the findings made by both western and Chinese demographers who have based their various research projects and therefore the GLF famine toll on this survey.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1661-7_8

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