10-8  Basic Conditions of Urban Households in 12 Western Provinces (Autonomous Regions, Municipality)
Item		1990		1995		2000		2003		2004
		12 Western	Ratio of 12 Western	12 Western	Ratio of 12 Western	12 Western	Ratio of 12 Western	12 Western	Ratio of 12 Western	12 Western	Ratio of 12 Western
		Provinces	Provinces to	Provinces	Provinces to	Provinces	Provinces to	Provinces	Provinces to	Provinces	Provinces to
			National Total		National Total		National Total		National Total		National Total
			(National Total=1)		(National Total=1)		(National Total=1)		(National Total=1)		(National Total=1)
Number of Households Surveyed	(households)	10000	0.28	10320	0.29	11520	0.27	12926	0.27	13395	0.27
Average Household Size	(persons)	3.67		3.23		3.10		3.04		3.02
Average Number of Employed Persons Per		1.91		1.81		1.62		1.53		1.52
Household	(persons)
Proportion of Employment per Household	(%)	52.12		56.13		52.17		50.20		50.29
Number of Dependents per Employee
(including the employee himself or herself)		1.92		1.79		1.92		2.00		1.99
	(persons)
Per Capita Annual Income	(yuan)	1401.74	0.92	3773.52	0.88	5516.95	0.87	7742.68	0.85	8601.17	0.85
Disposable Income		1388.70	0.92	3765.06	0.88	5486.21	0.87	7235.39	0.85	7996.08	0.85
Per Capita Annual Living Expenditures for		1156.42	0.90	3191.03	0.90	4534.69	0.91	5859.54	0.90	6433.58	0.90
Consumption	(yuan)
Food		618.13	0.89	1604.49	0.91	1779.71	0.90	2227.84	0.92	2501.56	0.92
Clothing		159.33	0.93	438.07	0.91	489.30	0.98	656.09	1.03	695.55	1.01
Household Appliances and Service				233.76	0.89	342.85	0.92	353.42	0.86	376.19	0.92
Health Care and Medical Services				114.13	1.04	288.44	0.91	413.90	0.87	445.44	0.84
Transport and Communications				169.41	0.92	369.73	0.87	653.81	0.91	716.69	0.85
Education, Cultural and Recreation Services				307.73	0.93	614.83	0.92	781.14	0.84	845.60	0.82
Housing				206.86	0.73	472.35	0.84	567.62	0.81	620.51	0.85
Miscellaneous Goods and Services				116.59	0.96	177.48	0.97	205.73	0.96	232.13	0.97
Composition of Per Capita Annual Living
Expenditures for Consumption	(%)
Food		53.45		50.28		39.25		38.02		38.88
Clothing		13.78		13.73		10.79		11.20		10.81
Household Appliances and Service				7.33		7.56		6.03		5.85
Health Care and Medical Services				3.58		6.36		7.06		6.92
Transport and Communications				5.31		8.15		11.16		11.14
Education, Cultural and Recreation Services				9.64		13.56		13.33		13.14
Housing				6.48		10.42		9.69		9.64
Miscellaneous Goods and Services				3.65		3.91		3.51		3.61
a) All indicators of Tibet before 2002 in the table are not available.