Basic Conditions of Rural Households
Items	1985	1990	1995	1999	2000	2001	2002
Number of Households Surveyed	66642	66960	67340	67430	68116	68190	68190
Number of Residents Surveyed (person)
Number of Permanent Residents in the Households Surveyed	341525	321429	301878	286348	286162	283223	281674
Average Number of Permanent Residents Per Household	5.12	4.80	4.48	4.25	4.20	4.15	4.13
Average Number of Able-bodied and Semi-able-bodied Laborers Per Household	2.95	2.92	2.88	2.77	2.76	2.73	2.73
Average Number of Persons Supported by a Laborer (including the laborer himself or herself)
	1.74	1.64	1.56	1.54	1.52	1.52	1.52
Per-capita Annual Income (yuan)
Total Income	547.31	990.38	2337.87	2987.44	3146.21	3306.92	3448.6
Net Income	397.60	686.31	1577.74	2210.34	2253.42	2366.40	2475.6
Cash Income	357.39	676.67	1595.56	2206.69	2381.60	2534.70	2713.0
Percentage of Households Grouped by Per-capita Annual Net Income (%)
Under 100 yuan	0.95	0.30	0.21	0.17	0.31
100-200 yuan	11.20	1.78	0.36	0.13	0.20
200-300 yuan	25.64	6.56	0.78	0.24	0.43
300-400 yuan	24.10	12.04	1.47	0.48	0.69
400-500 yuan	15.94	14.37	2.30	0.86	1.01
500-600 yuan	9.13	13.94	3.37	1.35	1.37
600-800 yuan	7.99	20.80	9.54	3.99	4.44
800-1000 yuan		12.49	11.63	5.77	5.72
1000-1200 yuan			11.83	7.04	6.75
1200-1300 yuan		12.25	5.38	3.80	3.75
1300-1500 yuan			9.74	8.08	7.42
1500-1700 yuan			7.92	8.05	7.48
1700-2000 yuan			9.39	11.15	10.45
2000-2500 yuan			10.29	15.18	15.54
2500-3000 yuan			5.89	10.33	10.29
3000-3500 yuan			3.49	7.05	7.11
3500-4000 yuan		1.99	1.95	4.67	4.76
4000-4500 yuan			1.34	3.18	3.44
4500-5000 yuan			0.86	2.13	2.40
5000 yuan and Over			2.26	6.35	7.45
Per-capita Annual Expenditures (yuan)
Total Expenditures	485.51	903.47	2138.33	2390.37	2652.42	2779.96	2923.6
Expenditures for Household Business	121.39	241.09	621.71	599.72	654.27	695.97	731.0
Expenditures for Consumption	317.42	584.63	1310.36	1577.42	1670.13	1741.09	1834.3
Other Non-productive Expenditures	9.57	18.80	55.28	55.62
Cash Expenditures	389.19	741.17	1766.67	2338.08	2140.37	2284.6	2437.7
Productive Costs	98.93	183.35	517.06	528.36		1364.1	1467.6
Taxes and Payments to Collective Units	16.35	33.38	76.96	93.06	89.81
Expenditures for Consumption	194.68	374.74	859.43	1144.61	1284.74
Expenditures for Savings and Credit	57.96	102.11	220.86	420.85
a) Data in tables 10-14 to 10-26 are obtained from sample surveys on rural households.
b) Percentage of households grouped by per-capita annual net income has been adjusted since 1995.