Correction of China's income inequality for missing top incomes

After accounting for top incomes missing from the Chinese Household Income Project, this paper examines the income inequality trend in China during the 21st century. Our analysis, which involves fitting the upper tail of the income distribution to a power-law model, reveals that the authoritative income survey data miss 0.68% of the population and 6.19% of aggregate income in 2018. Despite the most recent survey data providing better coverage of top incomes, our correction is still crucial. The raw survey data indicate a consistently increasing Gini coefficient between 2002 and 2018, but the corrected index starts to decline from 2013. Meanwhile, the revised top 1% income share increases from 7.01% in 2002 to 7.89% in 2013 and then slightly decreases to 7.64% in 2018, while the revised top 10% income share stabilises at around 33% throughout the period. Notably, China's revised top 10% and top 50% income shares in 2018 are close to those of the United Kingdom but are considerably lower than those of the United States.     

基于调查数据的交通运输行业增加值测算方法思考——以公路货运行业为例

增加值是反映经营活动成果和计算国民生产总值的主要指标。测算交通运输行业增加值,可以反映交通运输行业的投入、产出和经济效益情况,为改善交通运输企业生产经营提供依据。文中依托交通运输部组织开展的专项调查资料,结合国家统计局提供的增加值测算方法,以公路货运行业为例,对交通运输行业的增加值测算方法进行了思考。针对不同的调查内容,给出了两种公路货运行业的增加值测算方法,并对两种方法的优缺点进行了对比说明。     

Cross-sectional surveys: Inferring total eventual time in current state using only elapsed time-to-date

We focus on snapshot surveying of sub-populations whose members are in a temporary state and where one of the questions asked is the elapsed time already spent in that state. From these answers we develop probabilistic and statistical procedures to estimate the distribution of total time that will eventually be spent in that state by any random individual who enters the state. The method relies on a selection bias often found in temporal sampling, sometimes called “random incidence” or “longevity bias.” We develop results for several types of sampling, including random and fixed times of surveying, random and fixed times of entering the state, and sampling only those who have already spent some minimal specified time in the targeted state. An example with post-doc data is included to demonstrate the steps.     

加强校企合作 完善实训基地建设——甘肃钢铁职业技术学院实训基地现状的调查与思考

本文通过对学院实训基地的调研,总结目前甘肃钢铁职业技术学院校企合作的现状、存在的问题,进而分析所应该采取的措施。     

全站仪的误差分析及精度控制在水利工程测量中的研究

水利工程是国民经济建设过程中非常重要的建设内容,能够为人们的生产生活提供极大的便利,这就需要保证水利工程测量工作的准确性。在水利工程测量过程中,常用的测量工具就是全站仪,做好其误差分析与精度控制工作是非常必要的,本文就主要针对此予以简单分析。     

GPS在土地测绘中的应用

在经济飞速发展的21世纪,土地测绘的技术也在快速发展着。因为该技术应用于各个领域,其中,GPS技术起到了十分关键的作用,不仅为各个领域的发展提供了充足的准备和保障,也就奠定了GPS成为最基础的科学的地位。     

The persistence of innovation: a panel data investigation on manufacturing firms

This paper represents a contribution to empirical debate on the persistence of innovation in the firm, by exploiting an innovative panel database that, for the first time, links three waves of the Italian Community Innovation Survey with an administrative data source providing economic and financial information for firms in the Italian manufacturing sector, 1996–2003. By using both a dynamic logistic model and a Granger causality approach, we show that in order to innovate successfully it is much more important to have an adequate flow of profits during an appropriate time span rather than high profits only during one period before innovation. Our causality tests prove the existence of a dynamic interaction between innovation and profitability: successful innovation can, in the short run, generate the profitability conditions that can then enhance the financial resources needed to reinvest in new technological opportunities, thus causing the firm to persist in its innovative behaviour. We have also shown that another important source of persistence is represented by past innovative experience. A firm with consolidated innovative behaviour would have a higher probability of future successful innovation with respect to a firm that occasionally (or accidentally) innovates. Persistence in innovation enables a firm to take advantage of substantial technological and organizational learning effects, which improve with time.     

2014年武汉市入境游客抽样调查分析报告

为科学准确地反映2014年我国入境旅游业发展的总体状况,国家旅游局统一部署、省旅游局组织实施了＂入境游客花费情况抽样调查＂。本次调查是纳入《旅游统计调查制度》的国家调查项目,问卷按6种语种（即中、英、法、日、韩、俄）印刷,课题组完成了2014年武汉市入境游客抽样调查与分析报告。     

Assessment of mobility inequalities and income data collection. Methodological issues and a case study (Douala,Cameroon)

In order to understand the scale and nature of inequalities in intra-urban mobility we need reliable income data, but this is generally difficult to collect in household surveys. The methodological approaches that are employed to overcome difficulties in income data collection may affect the relative position of individuals and households within the income distribution and our estimates of mobility inequalities. In the context of a case study of Douala, this paper evaluates how the way income data is collected affects its accuracy and therefore the measurement of daily mobility inequalities. Simplified data collection tends to minimise the scale of inequalities as it misrepresents the income distribution. The error is greater in remote zones. Shortcomings in the statistical apparatus with regard to income data thus blur our perception of mobility inequalities and impede investigation of the links between daily travel, poverty and social exclusion.     

Analysis of travel behavior in Arab communities in Israel: a comparison of household surveys

This paper analyzes the main characteristics of travel behavior by the Arab minority community in Israel and discusses two issues related to household travel surveys: data collection among minorities and under-reporting of mid-day trips.Household travel surveys are generally designed and conducted for the majority population and, therefore, lack a proper accounting of minorities and miss many of their less-frequent trips. An alternative approach to conducting household surveys is presented, with the aim of improving data quality for transportation planning. The survey was designed for and conducted in three Arab towns in Israel. The main improvement of the survey involves better interaction between interviewer and interviewee, which should materialize into a relaxed environment that allows for obtaining detailed, reliable results within a reasonable amount of time.The results of the survey employing the alternative approach were compared to a sub-sample of the same towns taken from a regional survey conducted by the regional planning agency at the same time. The paper presents simple statistics on the main variables for each survey. Significant differences are found in the two data sets, mostly regarding the frequency of less frequent, non-home-based trips. A plausible explanation for these differences relates to the more detailed and improved data collected in the new survey.