<p>In <a href="https://www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/documents/research/publications/wp/2016/07.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this paper</a>, page 8, it says</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Quarterly seasonally adjusted nominal GDP and its deflator
  are constructed by Higgins and Zha (2015).</p>
</blockquote>

<p>That paper can be found <a href="https://78462f86-a-8b021025-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/tzha.net/www/articles/ChinaTimeSeries_HZ2.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7crFfZNi20fLtE-gnF4Ypnp8aXbf_rOBho_pqNs1vZvReSyMdPeKbvodC3-kwk4zZW__ViCGZAx16zLtfbjFW_ZYbD4b4BLJPgbIUFOUMrTPabGZGwSYx7vKqbk_oejIaAxxvrMlwQW5i-tuEqmFKBXNExaZj7oGuh4uDXgVPUl2El5luRJ0g85WJfw5fZo49-UCsfyuDGA6zBJagCjYv0b5Nq_y2w%3D%3D&amp;attredirects=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> (google did not help to find this paper. I had to look for the personal website of one of the authors, <a href="http://www.tzha.net/articles#CHINADATA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>).</p>

<p>This document states in section II.1, Step 1:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Annual
  real GDP-va –
  RGDP_va_A
  – is set to
  NGDP_va_A
  in 2008 ...</p>
</blockquote>

<p>This is confirmed later in the next page, when they say:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Except for the base year (chosen to be 2008) ... </p>
</blockquote>

<p>So it seems to be 2008. </p>

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<p>I had been searching for the GDP data of China and finally found it <a href="https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/china-macroeconomy.aspx?panel=1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. </p>

<p>The dataset gives the log real GDP data from 1992 (annual, quarterly and monthly). It doesn't specify the base year of the data, all it says is 
"<em>Implicit price deflator for GDP by value added, 1992Q1-</em>", for the GDP deflator. Is there a way to find the base year for the real GDP data?</p>

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China GDP Data - Base year
Deep_S
# China GDP Data - Base year

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-21)

I had been searching for the GDP data of China and finally found it [here](https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/china-macroeconomy.aspx?panel=1).

The dataset gives the log real GDP data from 1992 (annual, quarterly and monthly). It doesn't specify the base year of the data, all it says is
"*Implicit price deflator for GDP by value added, 1992Q1-*", for the GDP deflator. Is there a way to find the base year for the real GDP data?

**Tags:** macroeconomics, gdp, china, base-year


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-04-21. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

In [this paper](https://www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/documents/research/publications/wp/2016/07.pdf), page 8, it says

> Quarterly seasonally adjusted nominal GDP and its deflator
> are constructed by Higgins and Zha (2015).

That paper can be found [here](https://78462f86-a-8b021025-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/tzha.net/www/articles/ChinaTimeSeries_HZ2.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7crFfZNi20fLtE-gnF4Ypnp8aXbf_rOBho_pqNs1vZvReSyMdPeKbvodC3-kwk4zZW__ViCGZAx16zLtfbjFW_ZYbD4b4BLJPgbIUFOUMrTPabGZGwSYx7vKqbk_oejIaAxxvrMlwQW5i-tuEqmFKBXNExaZj7oGuh4uDXgVPUl2El5luRJ0g85WJfw5fZo49-UCsfyuDGA6zBJagCjYv0b5Nq_y2w%3D%3D&attredirects=0) (google did not help to find this paper. I had to look for the personal website of one of the authors, [here](http://www.tzha.net/articles#CHINADATA)).

This document states in section II.1, Step 1:

> Annual
> real GDP-va –
> RGDP\_va\_A
> – is set to
> NGDP\_va\_A
> in 2008 ...

This is confirmed later in the next page, when they say:

> Except for the base year (chosen to be 2008) ...

So it seems to be 2008.


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