China’s transitioning class identity

China Finance and Economic Review

Table 1 Change in class identification, China (proportion of respondents)

	Lower class	Working class	Lower middle class	Upper middle class	Upper class
1995–1998	0.1758	0.2185	0.3662	0.2318	0.0077
2000–2004	0.1861	0.2353	0.5455	0.0289	0.0043
2005–2008	0.2097	0.3041	0.4259	0.0543	0.0060
2010–2014	0.2007	0.3211	0.4343	0.0415	0.0023