Statistical cold knowledge in New Year’s Eve： New Year’s money is not included in disposable income.

　　Life needs a sense of ceremony, and Chinese New Year is an important ceremony in Chinese’s traditional customs. As the highlight of this ceremony, the New Year’s Eve dinner is of great significance.

　　How many people have traveled thousands of miles by train just to have a reunion dinner with their relatives. This is probably the longest meal eaten by most Chinese in a year, and it is also the most unforgettable meal.

　　This meal has gone through thousands of years, from simple and concise to rich and diverse, and witnessed the historical changes.

　　However, do you know that the changes of the New Year’s Eve dinner also affect the statistical investigation? The following small series will take you to understand the unknown statistical cold knowledge in the New Year’s Eve dinner!

　　Monitoring and investigation of livestock and poultry

　　Help you pay attention to the price of Chinese New Year "hard dishes"

　　Chicken, duck and fish can be said to be the standard of New Year’s Eve, and many places still retain the custom of killing pigs. New year’s dishes made by livestock and poultry have always been an indispensable "hard dish" on the dining table.

　　The price of chicken, duck, pig, beef and mutton is closely related to the quantity and price of slaughter. The monitoring and investigation of livestock and poultry we carry out is to pay attention to their quantity and price at all times.

　　However, from the monitoring data in recent years, due to the development of refrigeration and transportation technology, the price of livestock and poultry is not affected by festivals, and the supply of chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep is stable and sufficient.

　　Diet preference custom

　　Affect the weight of CPI compilation in various places

　　Although it is the same New Year’s Eve, there are totally different eating customs in different places. For example, as a coastal city of Ningbo, seafood is an essential frequent visitor to the table; As a southwest province in Sichuan and Chongqing, hot pot and string are the necessities of the annual flavor … …

　　The consumer price survey, also known as CPI, is closely related to the dietary preferences shown by everyone at the New Year’s Eve dinner.

　　For example, because Ningbo residents consume more seafood, the weight of aquatic products is higher in the compilation of CPI in Ningbo; In some inland cities, the consumption of meat is greater, so the weight of livestock meat is higher.

　　Eat at home or eat out?

　　Affect the classification of consumption expenditure

　　With the living conditions getting better and better, many families began to book New Year’s Eve dinners in restaurants and hotels, while some families invited chefs to their homes to make New Year’s Eve dinners.

　　This subtle change is also reflected in the residents’ living expenses.

　　If you bring your own New Year’s Eve dinner, it will involve various items such as grains, vegetables, meat and poultry, aquatic products and drinks. Eating out for New Year’s Eve or letting the chef come to the door is a catering service.

　　lucky money

　　Not included in disposable income.

　　For children, the last part of the New Year’s Eve dinner is the lucky money! Lucky money! Lucky money! Although it may be "mom saves it for you" in the end, I am still looking forward to this moment.

　　However, the lucky money is not included in the disposable income we often say, but included in the non-income income together with other one-time gifts, so the lucky money is generally not included in the income of residents we often say.

　　The above is the statistical cold knowledge about the New Year’s Eve dinner.

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