5-1 Employment
Item
	2000	2001	2002	2003
Economically Active Population (10 000 persons)	73992	74432	75360	76075
Total Number of Employed Persons (10 000 persons)	72085	73025	73740	74432
Primary Industry	36043	36513	36870	36546
Secondary Industry	16219	16284	15780	16077
Tertiary Industry	19823	20228	21090	21809
Composition of Employed Persons (total=100)
Primary Industry	50.0	50.0	50.0	49.1
Secondary Industry	22.5	22.3	21.4	21.6
Tertiary Industry	27.5	27.7	28.6	29.3
Number of Employed Persons by Urban and
Rural Areas (10 000 persons)
Urban Employed Persons	23151	23940	24780	25639
State-owned Units	8102	7640	7163	6876
Urban Collective-owned Units	1499	1291	1122	1000
Cooperative Units	155	153	161	173
Joint Ownership Units	42	45	45	44
Limited Liability Corporations	687	841	1083	1261
Share-holding Corporations Ltd.	457	483	538	592
Private Enterprises	1268	1527	1999	2545
Units with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan	310	326	367	409
Foreign Funded Units	332	345	391	454
Self-employed Individuals	2136	2131	2269	2377
Rural Employed Persons	48934	49085	48960	48793
Township and Village Enterprises	12820	13086	13288	13573
Private Enterprises	1139	1187	1411	1754
Self-employed Individuals	2934	2629	2474	2260
Number of Staff and Workers (10 000 persons)	11259	10792	10558	10492
State-owned Units	7878	7409	6924	6621
Urban Collective-owned Units	1447	1241	1071	951
Units of Other Types of Ownership	1935	2142	2563	2920
Number of Registered Unemployed Persons	595	681	770	800
in Urban Areas (10 000 persons)
Registered Unemployment Rate in Urban Areas (%)	3.1	3.6	4.0	4.3
a) From 1990 to 2000, the total number of employed persons, the sub-total of urban and rural employed persons have been adjusted in accordance with
the data obtained from the 5th National Population Census. Since 2001, these data are calculated by the annual population sampling survey. As a
result, the sum of the data by region, by ownship and by sector is not equal to the total. The same as in the following tables.