Accuracy and reliability of China's energy statistics

By J. Sinton. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Citations in the corpus

• Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from steel production in China (2002, background): “9 Recent concerns regarding the accuracy and reliability of China’s energy statistics [38] focus mostly on coal consumption reporting issues.”
• Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China (2014, unknown): “34 The electricity series jumps relative to the GDP data during the summer of 2002 due to an adjustment that corrects for previous under-reporting of coal usage around the turn of the century because of a policy of shuttering small coal mines due to safety concerns (Rawski 2001; Sinton 2001).”
• Can China contribute more to the fight against global warming (2006, background): “Although Sinton (2001) seems to raise some doubts regarding the accuracy and reliability of Chinese energy statistics after 1990, changes in the total energy use probably accurately represent the long run energy consumption patterns in relation to economic growth in China.”
• Why did the energy intensity fall in China's industrial sector in the 1990s? the relative importance of structural change and intensity change (2003, unknown): “…coal mines, it is likely that even the revised coal production statistics may undercount actual coal output, thus leading to not fully counting the “missing supply” in China’s statistics on coal consumption as a result of re-opening the closed mines (Sinton, 2001; U.S. Embassy in China, 2001).”
• The contribution of Chinese exports to climate change (2008, background): “For example, several authors have questioned the legitimacy of the official Chinese energy statistics for certain years, especially from around 1996 to 2004 (Sinton, 2001; Streets et al., 2001; Wu, 2007).”
• Why did China's energy intensity increase during 1998-2006: Decomposition and policy analysis (2010, background): “2 (Sinton, 2001; Streets et al., 2001), while reported economic growth remained strong (Rawski, 2001).”
• Journey to world top emitter: An analysis of the driving forces of China's recent CO2 emissions surge (2009, background): “Several authors have pointed towards underreporting, for example, in the case of coal consumption published in Chinese official energy statistics for the period of 1996 to 2004 [Sinton, 2001; Streets et al., 2001; Wu, 2007].”
• STRUCTURAL DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS APPLIED TO ENERGY AND EMISSIONS: AGGREGATION ISSUES (2012, background): “…coal consumption data, in the late 1990s and early 2000s had been questioned.8 The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics has since revised the energy data for the years 1999–2003 and included them in the China Energy Statistical Yearbooks 8 See, for example, Sinton (2001) and Akimoto et al. (2006).”
• What is driving China's decline in energy intensity? (2004, background): “As explained in Sinton (2001), notwithstanding the order from the central government in 1999 to shutdown small coalmines, these mines have continued their operation.”