Table A1.

Per capita annual household income by monthly household income categories reported in ITC China Surveys.

Reported Monthly Household Income Categories	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
	Mean Annual Household Income
<1000	5067	5067	5067	5067		5067
1000–2999	23,842	23,842	23,842	23,842		23,842
3000–4999	46,540	46,540	46,540	46,540		46,540
5000–6999	70,900	70,900	70,900	70,900		70,900
7000–8999	94,566	94,566	94,566	94,566		94,566
≥9000	111,008	124,729	146,664	168,363		208,160
	Mean Per Capita Annual Household Income
<1000	1960	1880	1817	1909		1892	1892	1892	1892	1892
1000–2999	8117	8025	7510	7932		7896	7896	7896	7896	7896
3000–4999	14,919	14,923	13,965	14,752		14,640	14,640	14,640	14,640	14,640
5000–6999	22,571	22,110	20,788	21,676		21,786	21,786	21,786	21,786	21,786
7000–8999	28,368	28,204	26,790	26,922		27,571	27,571	27,571	27,571	27,571
≥9000	32,139	37,842	34,677	47,199		64,861	72,902	81,698	90,822	99,743
Per capita household income growth (%)	10.7%	12.2%	8.4%	11.5%	8.1%	8.3%	9.5%	9.2%	9.0%	8.2%
Inflation (%)	1.5%	4.8%	5.9%	-0.7%	3.3%	5.4%	2.6%	2.6%	2.0%	1.5%

Source: Authors’ calculations based on data from China Household Finance Survey, 2011 [35]; IMF World Economic Outlook Database [36]; National Bureau of Statistics of China [25]; and ITC China Survey Waves 1–5. Notes: The mean per capita annual household income values for the lower five income groups for the years 2012–2015 were not adjusted for inflation or income growth. For the open-ended top income group with monthly household income 9000 yuan (1445 USD) and above, the mean per capita household income (64,861 yuan or 10,038 USD) imported from the CHFS 2011 was adjusted for inflation and per capita income growth for the years 2012–2015 to obtain the nominal income values for respective years. 1 USD was equivalent to 9.97 yuan in 2006, 7.61 yuan in 2007, 6.95 yuan in 2008, 6.83 yuan in 2009, 6.77 yuan in 2010, 6.46 yuan in 2011, 6.31 yuan in 2012, 6.20 yuan in 2013, 6.14 yuan in 2014 and 6.23 yuan in 2015 [37].