China’s transitioning class identity

China Finance and Economic Review

Table 2 Change in class identification and other transition countries (proportion of respondents)

		1995–1998 survey	Most recent survey (2014 unless otherwise noted)	Average annual real P/C GDP growth during period
Argentina^a	Upper	0.0038	0.0031	1.77^b
	Upper middle	0.1246	0.1152
	Lower middle	0.4056	0.3110
	Working	0.4142	0.4796
	Lower	0.0518	0.0911
Bulgaria^a	Upper	0.0071	0.0032	3.73
	Upper middle	0.1153	0.1074
	Lower middle	0.2315	0.2074
	Working	0.5066	0.5585
	Lower	0.1395	0.1234
Chile	Upper	0.0041	0.0111	3.00
	Upper middle	0.1785	0.1558
	Lower middle	0.4718	0.5427
	Working	0.2349	0.2371
	Lower	0.1108	0.0532
India^a	Upper	0.0778	0.0457	5.18
	Upper middle	0.2590	0.1551
	Lower middle	0.3183	0.3498
	Working	0.2078	0.1772
	Lower	0.1372	0.2722
Korea	Upper	0.0080	0.0092	3.77
	Upper middle	0.2959	0.3001
	Lower middle	0.4988	0.4798
	Working	0.1315	0.1655
	Lower	0.0658	0.0445
Russia	Upper	0.0094	0.0039	3.80
	Upper middle	0.1528	0.1276
	Lower middle	0.2360	0.3582
	Working	0.5317	0.3893
	Lower	0.0702	0.1210
Turkey	Upper	0.0185	0.0196	2.68
	Upper middle	0.2553	0.2495
	Lower middle	0.2744	0.4402
	Working	0.3906	0.2476
	Lower	0.0612	0.0431