Few articles in English have discussed the prevalence of autism in China. The work
described here was aimed at estimating the prevalence rate of autism-caused disability
among Chinese children and exploring family environmental factors associated with autism
based on a national population sample. Data for this study were derived from the Second
China National Sample Survey on Disability. A weighted number of 77,301 disabled
children affected by autism were identified, yielding a prevalence rate of 2.38/10,000. A …