Policy Report on the Reduction of Income Gap

Introduction to the report: This report uses CFPS 2012 and CFPS 2014 data to analyze and evaluate China's current income growth, income inequality and its changing trends, which will provide policymakers with a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of China's income distribution. evidence of. In particular, CFPS, as a rare large-scale social tracking survey project in China, will fully demonstrate the advantages of tracking data, which is currently not possible with other data. The CFPS uses retrospective questions to investigate the income of various sources of households and individuals surveyed over the past year. This part will be divided into two parts: first, describe the level and composition of household income in 2012-2014; secondly, use income quintile, Gini coefficient, 90/10 ratio, income liquidity and other indicators to discuss the degree of income inequality. And changes.

Contributed by Zhang Xiaobo Peking University National Development Research Institute