5-1 Employment

Item
	1998	1999	2000	2001


Economically Active Population (10 000 persons)	72087	72791	73992	74432
Total Number of Employed Persons (10 000 persons)	70637	71394	72085	73025
Primary Industry	35177	35768	36043	36513
Secondary Industry	16600	16421	16219	16284
Tertiary Industry	18860	19205	19823	20228
Composition of Employed Persons (total=100)
Primary Industry	49.8	50.1	50.0	50.0
Secondary Industry	23.5	23.0	22.5	22.3
Tertiary Industry	26.7	26.9	27.5	27.7
Number of Employed Persons by Urban and
Rural Areas (10 000 persons)
Urban Employed Persons	21616	22412	23151	23940
State-owned Units	9058	8572	8102	7640
Urban Collective-owned Units	1963	1712	1499	1291
Cooperative Units	136	144	155	153
Joint Ownership Units	48	46	42	45
Limited Liability Corporations	484	603	687	841
Share-holding Corporations Ltd.	410	420	457	483
Private Enterprises	973	1053	1268	1527
Units with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan	294	306	310	326
Foreign Funded Units	293	306	332	345
Self-employed Individuals	2259	2414	2136	2131
Rural Employed Persons	49021	48982	48934	49085
Township and Village Enterprises	12537	12704	12820	13086
Private Enterprises	737	969	1139	1187
Self-employed Individuals	3855	3827	2934	2629
Number of Staff and Workers (10 000 persons)	12337	11773	11259	10792
State-owned Units	8809	8336	7878	7409
Urban Collective-owned Units	1900	1652	1447	1241
Units of Other Types of Ownership	1628	1785	1935	2142
Number of Female Employment	-	4613	4411	4226
in Urban Units (10 000 persons)
Number of Registered Unemployed Persons	571	575	595	681
in Urban Areas (10 000 persons)
Registered Unemployment Rate in Urban Areas (%)	3.1	3.1	3.1	3.6


a) Since 1990 data on economically active population, the total employed persons and the sub-total of employed persons in urban and rural areas have
been adjusted in accordance with the data obtained from the 5^th National Population Census. As a result, the sum of the data by region, by ownership
or by sector is not equal to the total. The same as in the following tables.