使用人均收入作为衡量人民生活水平指标之反思  

Reflections on Applying Income Per Capita as a Index to Measure of People’s Living Standards

作　　者：齐心怡 高青松[2] QI Xinyi;GAO Qingsong(Department of Development Studies,School of Oriental and African Studies,University of London,London WC1H 0XG;Business School,Xiangtan University,Xiangtan Hunan 411105,China)

机构地区：[1]伦敦大学亚非学院发展研究系,伦敦WC1H0XG [2]湘潭大学商学院,湖南湘潭411105

出　　处：《湖南工业大学学报（社会科学版）》2021年第5期29-37,共9页Journal of Hunan University of Technology(Social Science Edition)

摘　　要：人均收入作为社会发展领域应用最广泛的一个指标,被诸多国家、国际组织采纳为衡量人民生活水平的有效指标。人均收入作为衡量人民生活水平最为常用的指标自有其优势与合理性,但也存在人均收入反映的信息与实际情况存在偏差、人均收入不能反映非物质层面的信息等缺陷。现实数据表明,过分依赖人均收入作为衡量人民生活水平的指标可能使国家发展政策重点出现偏差,造成只有数据增长而人民生活水平可能未得到实际改善的问题。基于此,可以使用多个量化指标或对多个指标进行交叉比对,根据实际需要运用新指标,力求考察物质层面以外的信息等,以尽量弥补人均收入作为衡量人民生活水平单一指标的不足,更加科学全面地衡量人民生活水平。As the most widely applied index in the field of social development,income per capita has been adopted by many countries and international organizations as an effective index to measure people’s living standards.Although it is true that income per capita has its advantages and rationality in terms of measuring people’s living standards.Nevertheless,it also has many defects.These include that income per capita may not reflect the actual situation accurately and comprehensively.Also,income per capita cannot reflect information beyond the material dimension.Empirical evidence has proved that excessive reliance on income per capita to measure and assess people’s living standards may lead to deviations in the focus of national development policies,resulting in solely numerical growth without an actual improvement of people’s living standards.Therefore,it can be helpful to introduce and use multi-dimensional indices and cross-check between them to correct possible errors of data.And new indices can be used based on actual needs to investigate information beyond the material level.These methods are expected to make up for the deficiencies of simply applying income per capita in measuring people’s living standards,and to achieve a more scientific and comprehensive assessment of people’s living standards.

关 键 词：人均收入 人民生活水平 量化指标 

分 类 号：F014.4[经济管理—政治经济学]