Bureau of Statistics to respond to residents’ income increased data and the people feel does not match

According to the Xinhua News Agency National Bureau of Statistics spokesman Sheng to transport 13 explained that the increase in the income of urban residents with everyone feeling inconsistent with the distribution of income.

to transport of the State Council Information Office held a press conference that, from a statistical point of view to explain the majority of residents per capita income below the average, this is not a normal distribution, but skewed distribution. To help you understand the issue, the National Bureau of Statistics released last year, the median income of urban and rural residents (according to income from low to high queuing in the middle of the income number), the first quarter of this year continue to publish the median income of residents. The median income is generally lower than the average income of more than 50 percent of the residents, that is lower than the average income.

National Bureau of Statistics data show that in the first quarter of this year, the National urban residents per capita disposable income of 6796 yuan year on year real growth of 9.8 percent after deducting price factors, of which the median was 5658 yuan; per capita cash income of rural residents 2560 yuan, up 12.7 percent, the median is 1872 yuan.

Sheng Laiyun said, in the case of major economic indicators declining growth rate in the first quarter revenue growth of urban and rural residents is still relatively fast. At the same time, the countries of the past two years has introduced a series of measures to support income growth, so have such a good situation. National Bureau of Statistics compared the relevant departments of the administrative records and found that the growth of the data is matched, there is no growth in income of residents overvalued.