China Yearbook of Rural Household Survey-2010 is an annual statistical publicationand has a very comprehensive data coverage of production,income,consumption,accumulation and social activities of the rural households.The publication includesboth the national and provincial aggregates since 1978 with the national aggregates onan annual basis and provincial ones by net income groups for selected years.It alsoincludes statistics grouped by three economic regions.The data in this book contain four parts:(1)National information of rural households,1978-2009;(2)Basic condition of rural households by groups,selected years;(3)Incomeand expenditure by province,selected years;(4)Main information of rural householdsby province,2009.The publication maintains the original grouping structures for historical data with noadjustments made in terms of group intervals and number of groups.The data of the publication come from the national rural household survey conductedby the National Bureau of Statistics and do not cover Hong Kong Special AdministrativeRegion,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 thoseconcerning 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.