E-Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
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Economically
Active Population refers to the population aged 16 and over who are
capable to work, are participating in or willing to participate in economic
activities, including employed persons and unemployed persons. |
Persons
Employed in Various Units refer to all the persons working in government agencies
of various levels, political and party organizations, social organizations,enterprises and
institutions, and receiving wages or other forms of payment. They include fully-employed
staff and workers, re-employed retirees, teachers
in schools run by the local people,foreigners and Chinese compatriots
from Hong Kong, Macao,and Taiwan working in various
units, part-time employees, employees of other units working temporarily at
current posts, and employees holding the second job, but exclude staff and
workers who have left their working units while keeping their labour contract
(employment relation) unchanged.This indicator reflects the
total number of laborers actually engaged in production or other operations in
various units. |
Persons
Employed in Private Enterprises and Self-Employed Individuals in Urban Areas Persons
employed in private enterprises refer to the persons employed in the private
enterprises which have been registered at the departments of industrial and
commercial administration and are situated at a county town (i.e. a town
where the county government is located) for business operation or at urban
areas with the level higher than a county town. The self-employed individuals
in urban areas refer to persons who hold the certificates of residence in
urban areas or have resided in the urban areas for a long time and have been
registered at the departments of industrial and commercial administration and
approved to be engaged in individual industrial or commercial business,
including self-employed persons as well as helpers and hired labourers who work in the individual households engaged
in industrial or commercial business. |
Registered
Urban Unemployed Persons The registered unemployed
persons in urban areas refer to the persons who are registered as permanent
residents in the urban areas engaged in non-agricultural activities, aged
within the range of working age, capable to labour, unemployed but desirous
to be employed and have been registered at the local employment service
agencies to apply for a job. |
Registered
Urban Unemployment Rate Registered unemployment rate in urban areas
refers to the ratio of the number of the registered unemployed persons to the
sum of the number of employed persons and the registered unemployed persons . The formula is as follows: |
Registered urban
unemployment rate = number of registered urban unemployed persons/(number of
urban employed persons + number of registered urban unemployed persons) X100% |
Staff and Workers refer to the persons
who work in(and receive payment therefrom)enterprises and
institutions of state ownership, collective ownership, joint ownership, share holding, foreign ownership, and ownership
by entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and other
types of ownership and their affiliated units,excluding the
retired persons invited to work in the units again, teachers in the schools
run by the local people and foreigners and persons coming from Hong Kong,
Macao and Taiwan and working in the state-owned economic units. (Number of
staff and workers in this yearbook include only fully employed staff and
workers, excluding those who have left their working units while keeping
their labour contract/employment relation unchanged). |
Fully Employed
Staff and Workers refer to persons who work
in, and receive wages from their working units, as well as persons who have
their work posts, but are temporarily absent from work for reasons of study
or on sick, injury or maternal leave and still receive wages from their
working units. |
Staff and
Workers in State-owned Economic Units refer to the persons who
work in the state-owned economic units or their attached units and are listed
in their payrolls. |
Staff and
Workers of Collective Owned Units in Urban Areas refer to the
persons who work in collective owned units in urban areas and their administration
departments and receive payment therefrom. |
Staff and
Workers in Units of Other types of Ownership refer to those who work in(and receive payment
therefrom)enterprises and institutions
of joint ownership, share holding, foreign ownership, and ownership
by entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. |
Total Wages of
Staff and Workers refer to the total remuneration payment to staff and
workers in various units during a certain period of time.The calculation
of total wages is based on the total remuneration payment to the staff and
workers. Therefore, all the wages and salaries and other payments to staff
and workers are included in the total wages regardless of their sources, category, and
forms (in kind or cash).(Total wages of staff and
workers in this yearbook include only total wages of fully employed staff and
workers, excluding the living allowances distributed to those who have left
their working units while keeping their labour contract/employment relation
unchanged). |
Bonus refers to remuneration
payment to workers for extra work and for increasing earnings and practicing
economy. |
Subsidies and Allowances refer to subsidies
paid to staff and workers for compensating special or extra labour and allowances
paid to staff and workers to offset the impact of inflation on real wages. |
Average
Wage of Staff and Workers refers
to the average wage in money terms per person during a certain period of time
for staff and workers in enterprises, institutions, and government agencies,
which reflects the general level of wage income during a certain period of
time and is calculated as follows: |
Average Wage of Staff and
Workers =Total Wages of Staff and Workers in Reference Period/Average Number
of Staff and Workers in Reference Period |
Index of Average Wage of
Staff and Worker
refers to the ratio of average wage of staff and workers at the report
time to that at the reference time. It reflects the relative changing degree
of average wage in money terms at the various of time, which is calculated as
following: |
Index of Average Wage of Staff and Worker = average wage of staff and
workers at the report time/average wage of staff and workers at the reference
time |
Index of Average Real Wage
of Staff and Worker refers to the average wage which has removed the
factor of price change. Index of
average real wage of staff and worker reflects the relative changing degree
of average real wage, and indicates the degree of the rising or declining
degree of real wage of staff and worker, which is calculated as following: |
Index of Average Real Wage of Staff and Worker = Index of Average Wage of Staff and Worker at the Report Time/Urban consumer prices index at the report time |