China's Provincial Households

China's provincial household data came from the China Statistical Yearbooks 2012-2015, which produced a series that runs from 2011-2014. There is household data published in the 2016 yearbook, but this data was not included because it is significantly different from the preceding years by about 3 million households in some provinces. There was not a reason for this inconsistency that was found in the China Statistical Yearbooks' metadata. 

the first series that was used came from the Chinese census out of the China Data Center database. It need an update and I found a new series that had more recent data. However, we could not use a blended series because the data was significantly different (~3 million households in some provinces). Because of this incongruent data, I opted to use the new series that has more recent data instead of the census data.