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Table 7.1 reports eight types of household expenditure, including food, clothing, utilities, daily purchases and durables, health care, transportation and communication, education and entertainment, and other expenditures. The average annual expenditure of the sampled households for 2010 is 41,904 yuan with a median of 25,073 yuan. Food dominated total expenditure, with average household spending of 12,016 yuan, accounting for 28.67 % of the total. After food, the other two major forms of expenditure were transportation and communication, and utilities. Spending on the former totaled 7,834 yuan (18.70 %), while spending on the latter was 6,878 (16.41 %).
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Gan, L., Yin, Z., Jia, N., Xu, S., Ma, S., Zheng, L. (2014). Expenditure and Income. In: Data you need to know about China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38151-5_7
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