Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators |
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. |
Employed Persons refers to the persons who are engaged in social labour and receive remuneration payment or earn business
income,including:total staff and workers,
re-employed retirees, employers of private enterprises, self-employed
workers, employees in private enterprises and individual economy, employees
in the township enterprises, employed persons in the rural areas, other
employed persons (including teachers in the schools run by the local people,
people engaged in religious profession and the servicemen, etc.). This
indicator reflects the actual utilization of total labour
force during a certain period of time and is often used for the research on
China’s economic situation and national power. |
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) 100% |
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 there from. |
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 Average Real Wage of Staff
and Workers refers to average wage of staff and workers after
removing the effects of price changes, which is calculated as follows: |
Average Real Wage of Staff and Workers =Average Wage of Staff and Workers in Reference Period / Consumer Price Index of Urban Residents in Reference Period |