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In January 2009 in Changchun City, the consum
In January 2009, Changchun CPI (the consumer price index) rose by 0.2% year-on-year, 0.8 percentage points lower than the national. This is learned from the statistics department.
Constitute the Change from the eight, the "five liters a second drop-ping" is its main features. Of which: food rose 2.1%, alcoholic drinks and tobacco category and supplies rose 1.2 percent, and clothing rose 3.3%, household appliances and maintenance services rose 8.5 percent, medical care and personal products category rose 1.8%; entertainment, educational and cultural articles the same category; transport and communications fell 3.1 percent, housing 8.2 percent decline.
In January this year, Changchun City, prices of consumer goods led the overall level of consumer prices rose by 1.3 percentage points, in which vegetables, meat, aquatic products and flour and other food prices are driving up the overall level of consumer prices rose a major factor. Services prices affect the consumer price index has dropped by nearly 0.1 percentage points.
From: Journal of Changchun Published: 2009-02-13
Noun: Engel's coefficient
Engel's coefficient (Engel's Coefficient) is the total expenditure on food for personal consumption expenditures accounted for the proportion of the total.
19th century German statistician Engel According to statistics, the changes in the structure of the consumer to arrive at a law: a household income less household income (or total expenditure) is used to buy food expenditure proportion of the greater, With the increase in household income, household income (or total expenditure) is used to buy food will decline in the proportion of the expenditure. On a wider scale, the poorer a country, each national average income (or average expenditure) for the purchase of food, the greater the proportion of expenditure, with the rich countries, the proportion of a downward trend.
To put it simply, a family or smaller countries, the Engel's coefficient, indicates the family or the more affluent the country's economy. Conversely, if the family or the greater the Engel coefficient, or the family on that country's economy more difficult. Of course, the more accurate data, the family or the country's economic situation is also more accurate response.
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Health into the mainstream consumer
Health into the mainstream consumer
How to spend it to do what? Changchun, according to the relevant investigation team staff, the decline in the Engel's coefficient is a resident of a concrete manifestation of improved living standards. 2008, Changchun City residents 4116 yuan per capita food consumption, food expenditure in consumer expenditure rose from 32.9 percent the previous year dropped to 32.4 percent, the Engel's coefficient reduced by 0.5 percentage points.
With income growth, urban residents in the diet have become increasingly demanding, simple enough is not the purpose. 2008, urban per capita consumption expenditure 228 per aquatic products, 30.4 percent increase over the previous year; fresh vegetables per capita consumption expenditures 488.9 yuan, increasing 14.5 percent over the previous year; fresh fruit per capita consumption expenditure 366 yuan, increasing 17.4 percent over the previous year; per capita fresh melon 118 consumer spending, increased 24.5 percent over the previous year; yogurt consumption expenditure per capita 52.5 yuan, increasing 58.4 percent over the previous year.
From; http://www.chinajilin.com.cn/cswb/content/2009-01/21/content_1474828.htm