Efficient scale of prefectural government in China

China Finance and Economic Review

Table 1 Coverage of sample for each province or municipality

Provinces and municipalities	Sample	Total	Coverage
Beijing Municipality	5	18	0.278
Tianjin Municipality	4	16	0.250
Hubei Province	138	172	0.802
Shanxi Province	97	119	0.815
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region	81	101	0.802
Liaoning Province	43	100	0.430
Jilin Province	41	60	0.683
Heilongjiang Province	65	128	0.508
Shanghai Municipality	3	18	0.167
Jiangsu Province	57	106	0.538
Zhejiang Province	55	90	0.611
Anhui Province	61	105	0.581
Fijian Province	57	85	0.671
Jiangxi Province	80	99	0.808
Shandong Province	91	140	0.650
Henan Province	107	159	0.673
Hubei Province	66	103	0.641
Hunan Province	84	122	0.689
Guangdong Province	74	121	0.612
Guangxi Province	81	109	0.743
Hainan Province	16	20	0.800
Changing Municipality	26	40	0.650
Sichuan Province	139	181	0.768
Guizot Province	76	88	0.864
Yunnan Province	120	129	0.930
Tibet Autonomous Region	72	73	0.986
Shaanxi Province	86	107	0.804
Gansu Province	75	86	0.872
Qinghai Province	38	43	0.884
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region	13	22	0.591
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region	86	98	0.878
Total	2037	2858	0.713

“Total” is the total number of county-level jurisdictions in 2009 reported by the 2010 China Statistical Yearbook. “Sample” is the number of observations used in this paper. “Coverage” is the coverage ratio of the sample to the total