The Census Bureau says it will revalue the income of the rich

Business News (reporter Dingkaiyan) around the "hidden income" is accurate, the survey method is scientific, and the National Economic Research Institute deputy director Wang Xiaolu "controversy", the National Bureau of Statistics web site yesterday published a signed article, in addition to the recognition of two major causes of resident income statistics exist omission, said "willing to work with everyone to improve the income statistics" outside　　, the article puts forward, in particular, "the use of existing income tax information to estimate the proportion of high-income groups and the level of income". Wang Xiaolu released the survey data showed that 2008 urban residents were missing "hidden income" amounted to 9.26 trillion yuan, of which 5.4 trillion yuan is gray income, and this part of the revenue is largely occupied by high-income groups.　　In response to the findings, the National Bureau of Statistics bursts two texts last week, questioning the data as excessive. In addition to the technical aspects of the discussion, the public's expectation of real income data is more urgent, experts interviewed by reporters said that the statistics bureau should produce the official version of the data, because only the real data, income distribution reform and other policy formulation can be targeted. "If the residents ' income data error, will affect the macro-policy trend, resulting in the overall regulatory policy deficiencies."　　Mr Cao, a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.　　An article published yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics said that there are two main reasons for the omission of residents ' income statistics: one is that some high-income groups are unwilling to be surveyed, and the second is that some of the households surveyed may have omitted and reported less data. In view of the reluctance of some high-income groups to accept the survey, the article points out that three methods are proposed to be supplemented: first, to estimate the proportion of high-income groups and the income level by using the existing income tax data, and to invite World Bank experts to make use of the survey data of large sample of urban households in the country currently under development.　　Third, the survey sample structure is comprehensively corrected and evaluated by using the data of the six national census. In response to some of the surveyed households may be missing, underreporting data, the article said that the plan in the regular survey households to carry out a number of anonymous mailing questionnaires to compare their accounts in the process of omission, underreporting income ratio, in order to assess the national residents of the survey income bias.