Sorry, I shouldn’t have just stated a claim without some evidence.
Here are some examples of semi-obvious statistical manipulation happening in the Chinese census data. I don’t necessarily agree with all of their conclusions (e.g., they assume that the One Child Policy applies to everyone), but there are enough signs of tampering for my taste.
Chinese census data is notoriously unreliable.
I can believe that. The World Factbook has different figures, but they are in the same direction. I don’t know where they get their data from, though.
Sorry, I shouldn’t have just stated a claim without some evidence.
Here are some examples of semi-obvious statistical manipulation happening in the Chinese census data. I don’t necessarily agree with all of their conclusions (e.g., they assume that the One Child Policy applies to everyone), but there are enough signs of tampering for my taste.