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Analyst: The recent increase in the average household income in our province suggests that most of our citizens are enjoying a higher standard of living than they were five years ago.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the analyst's conclusion?
- The entire rise in average income traces to an enormous jump in earnings concentrated among the wealthiest one percent of households.
- The price of imported luxury goods has held perfectly steady throughout the same five-year stretch in every district of the province.
- Many citizens cannot say with any precision how much their own household income has actually changed over the past five-year period.
- Average household size across the province has fallen markedly over the past decade, even in its most populous urban centers.
- Average household income in each of the neighboring provinces rose by a roughly comparable amount over the same five-year span.
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