Likewise, World Bank survey data estimate that the Indian middle class comprises roughly 90 million people, despite more than 900 million cell-phone subscribers and 40 million cars. Such contradictions reflect significant measurement discrepancies, which, in India’s case, could be on the order of hundreds of millions of people.
类似地，世界银行的调查数据估计印度中产阶级大概有9000万人，尽管手机用户高达9亿多人，汽车保有量也超过4000万。如此矛盾表明计量手段存在重大差异，在印度的例子中，差异可能高达几亿人的数量级。