The rich, the poor and the new middle class
ACNielsen's methodology is different, they use household expenditure. There is way, way tooooo much guesswork involved with determining individual income like these guys have tried to do...
Indonesia's a funny place in this regard; formal, stated income means next to nothing. A TNI General's salary is like Rp3.5 million, but he has somehow "earned" enough to "acquire" 5 luxury Euro cars, a hotel and some pubs... A mid-level civil servant at the immigration office may have a stated income of just Rp2.2 million, and came from a dirt poor village with no inheritance money, but he drives home in his mercedes and his kids go to expensive national plus schools with tuition of over Rp5 million/mo.
Duh... this guy's survey and final numbers, ultimately mean very little and have no bearing whatsoever on reality. ACNielsen doesn't even bother with asking about salary, they simply ask how much people spend on housing, food, schooling, savings etc.. Their A1 category is over Rp3million/mo spending and is about 6% of the population. And yet this guy says only O.5% earn over 3 mill!
Indonesia's a funny place in this regard; formal, stated income means next to nothing. A TNI General's salary is like Rp3.5 million, but he has somehow "earned" enough to "acquire" 5 luxury Euro cars, a hotel and some pubs... A mid-level civil servant at the immigration office may have a stated income of just Rp2.2 million, and came from a dirt poor village with no inheritance money, but he drives home in his mercedes and his kids go to expensive national plus schools with tuition of over Rp5 million/mo.
Duh... this guy's survey and final numbers, ultimately mean very little and have no bearing whatsoever on reality. ACNielsen doesn't even bother with asking about salary, they simply ask how much people spend on housing, food, schooling, savings etc.. Their A1 category is over Rp3million/mo spending and is about 6% of the population. And yet this guy says only O.5% earn over 3 mill!