Open AccessStatistical Measurement of the Overall Scale of Urban Poverty in China
Author(s) -
Dan Wu,
Jinyang Liu,
Xiong Zhang
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
scientific and social research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2661-4332
DOI - 10.26689/ssr.v4i2.3640
Subject(s) - poverty , urbanization , china , scale (ratio) , population , government (linguistics) , economics , urban poverty , distribution (mathematics) , estimation , geography , development economics , economic growth , socioeconomics , demography , sociology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , archaeology , management
As China is undergoing rapid urbanization and social transformation, the research on urban poverty has become increasingly important. So far, the Chinese government has still not drawn an official urban poverty line. The statistical measurement of the overall scale of urban poverty in China is carried out based on three aspects: price adjustment, income distribution data, and main poverty-stricken population, in which the trend analysis of the poor population, the maximum likelihood estimation, and the recent price adjustment are used as measures. The arithmetic average of the urban poverty population, measured via the above three different measures, is taken to obtain the current overall scale of urban poverty in China, which is 10.816 million.