Is Urban China’s CPI Underreported? - Chinese Studies

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Chinese Studies

Volume 2, Issue 4 (November 2013)

ISSN Print: 2168-5428 ISSN Online: 2168-541X

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Is Urban China’s CPI Underreported? ()

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DOI: 10.4236/chnstd.2013.24024 5,996 Downloads 9,308 Views

Author(s)

Sun Wenkai

Affiliation(s)

School of Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.

ABSTRACT

Many have doubts about statistics, including the consumer price index (CPI) released by Chinese Government. We re-estimate the CPI in urban China from 1997 to 2009, with two widely accepted approaches to treating owner-occupied housing (i.e., user cost approach and consumption cost approach). The results are not considerably different from the NBS statistics, especially for recent years.

KEYWORDS

Consumer Price Index; Owner-Occupied Housing; User Cost Approach; Consumption Cost Approach

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Sun, W. (2013). Is Urban China’s CPI Underreported?. Chinese Studies, 2, 149-151. doi: 10.4236/chnstd.2013.24024.

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