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Statistics of Family Expenses in

Shanghai

As is shown in the table above, dramatic changes have taken place in family expenses in the City of Shanghai within two decades (from 1984 to 2004). The most obvious change is in expense on food and clothing, which has dropped by 48%; while those on recreation, education and health care have increased respectively by 5%, 16% and 10%. Expenses on other things keep rising from 17% to 35%.

The statistics of rise and fall seem to exist in isolation but are in fact closely related to one another. The most likely factors accounting for these changes are as follows:

Development in economy is the fundamental one. The increased income results in the lowering percentage of

food and clothing. That is to say, a small percentage of the total income is enough to cover food and clothing expenses.

Another factor lies in the development of people’s concept. When people are well fed and well dressed, they begin to interest themselves in recreation and education. As for the more expenses on health care, I figure there are two main reasons: the cancellation of free medical care and people’s awareness of the importance of health.

The changes reflect the development of the city and indicate that people are enjoying more.

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From the table, we can see the decrease of the population growth rate. It added up to 1.6% in 1994, while it decreased to 1.54% in 1995 and 1.52% in 1996 respectively. Therefore, it can

be predicated that the growth rate is to be on the decrease in the century. There are chiefly two reasons for the decline. Firstly, couples in ever-increasing number, owing to the development of society, have realized the harm of bringing up too many children. Secondly, all the countries of the world, especially, the developing countries have taken united action to deal with the population explosion. One of the most important measures is the birth control. Since 1980’s, China has conducted the family planning program to control the balance of the death rate and the birth rate and has achieved great success.

In spite of what is mentioned above, there are still many people who don’t understand the significance of population control. The table indicates the number of population was 5.777