China Yearbook of Rural Household Survey-2009 is an annual statistical publication and has a very comprehensive data coverage of production,income,consumption,accumulation and social activities of the rural households.The publication includes both the national and provincial aggregates since 1978 with the national aggregates on an annual basis and provincial ones by net income groups for selected years.It also includes statistics grouped by three economic regions.The data in this book contain four parts:(1) National information of rural households,1978-2008;(2) Basic condition of rural households by groups, selected years;(3) Income and expenditure by province, selected years;(4) Main information of rural households by province,2008.The publication maintains the original grouping structures for historical data with no adjustments made in terms of group intervals and number of groups.The data of the publication come from the national rural household survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics and do not cover Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province.Statistical discrepancies due to rounding are not adjusted in the publication.The notes concerning a whole table are placed at the beginning of the table while those concerning individual indicators are placed at the end.Notations used in the publication:“”:data not available or less than measurement unit;“#”:major items;“*”:see footnotes below.
