Actual Income of Urban Households refers to the total cash income of the sample households, including regular or fixed income and occasional income. Excluding withdrawal from bank deposits, loans borrowed from relatives or frien ds,repayment of loans received and various temporary collection of money.

Disposable Income of Urban Households refers to the income of the sa mple households which can be used for daily expenses, refers to the difference of total income minus income tax.

Expenditure for Consumption of Urban Households refers to total expe nditure of the sample households for consumption in daily life, of living expend itures on commodities and service. It is classified into 8 categories by food, c lothing, household facilities and articles service, medicine and medical service , transportation and communication,recreation, education and culture service, re sidence, miscellaneous commodities services. Expenditure for non-commodities of urban households, include tax payments, expenditure for consumption loan interes t, expenditure for current transfers.

Total Income of Rural Households refers to the total income of the r ural households during a year from various resource (including cash income and kind income). Total income of rural households consists of basic income, transfe r income, and property income. Basic income include laborers remuneration,income from household business operation. Transfer income include brought back by the members of the household who are in other places, gift income, survey subsidies, insurance damages, relief funds, provide disaster relief, retired income, pensi ons funds, register relief with five-guarantees, reward income, land imposed sub sidies income and other transfer income. Property income include interest income , dividend rent income, sell franchise income, collective property income,other property income.

Net Income of Rural Households refers to the total income of the rur al households after the deduction of the expenses for the various cost, disposab le income of the residents, which can then be spent for investment in productiv e and non-productive construction, improve material and culture life, so as to e xpenditure of redistribute and saving. Saving deposit reflects the actual level of the income of the peasants household and the capability of expanding reprodu ction and improving life.

Total Expenditure of Disaposable Income of Rural Households refers t o the income after the first and the second distribution. The disaposable income can be used as the final consumption and expenditure and saving under no obliga tion. It can be expressed as the following fomular,

Total Expenditure of Disapos able Income of Rural Households=Total Income of Rural Households－Family Managem ent Consumption expenditure－Taxes Expenditure－Depreciation of Fixed Production Assets－Estate Expenditure－Current Expenditure－Investigation Subsidy

Total Expenditure of Rural Households refers to total actual expense s of rural households during a year on productive, daily life and redistribute, including the expenses for productive operation, purchase productive fixed asse ts, the payment for taxes, the payment for collective units for their contracted tasks, collective use and various apportionment, living expenditure and other e xpenditure from non-borrowing from non-banks. But the expenditure from borrowing from banks is excluded.

Expenditure of Rural Households for Consumption refers to actual exp enses of rural households on material life and cultural life. It reflects actual level of the life of the peasants household, including expenses on food, clothi ng, residence, household facilities and articles service, medicine and medical s ervice, transportation and communication, recreation, education and culture serv ice, other commodities and services,etc.