Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Cultural Institutions refer to
units, which have their own organizational system and independent accounting
system and specialize in or serve cultural development. They exclude other
establishments run by these cultural institutions and amateur cultural groups
established by various departments. This indicator reflects the development of
cultural units.
Art Troupe refers to the
troupe which is engaged in drama, opera, music, dance,
acrobatics or other art performance, opens independent accounts with banks and
has self-supporting accounting system; excluding the troupes which are engaged
partly in industrial or agricultural activities, partly in art performance and
the professional troupes organized by the people. This indicator reflects the
development of national professional art troupes.
Number of Audience at Art Performance refers
to the number of attendants at commercial shows, completely booked shows or
free shows given in minority national areas, and does not include the number of
spectators at rehearsals for examination and internal
shows for study.
Health Care Institutions include:
medical institutions, disease prevention and control centers (epidemic
prevention stations), blood gathering and supplying institutions, health
supervision and inspection (check up) institutions, medicinal scientific
research and on-job training institutions, health education and so on.
Medical Organizations include:
hospitals, health service centers (stations) of communities, nursing homes,
health centers, clinics, clinics (health stations and infirmaries), maternity
and child care agencies (centers and stations), special disease prevention and
curing agencies (centers and stations), first aid centers (stations) and
clinical inspection centers. Medical organizations are grouped by two types:
profit-making and non-profit-making medical organizations.
Hospitals include:
polyclinics, traditional Chinese medical hospitals, hospitals integrated with
traditional Chinese therapeutics and western therapeutics, ethical hospitals,
various specialties hospitals and nursing hospitals.
Medical Technical Personnel refers
to doctors, assistant nurses, pharmacists, and laboratory technicians working
in medical institutions.
Doctors refer to certified
physicians and certified assistant physicians with certifications working in
medical and health care and prevention agencies.
Total Cost of Health Services reflects the total expenditures on
medical and health care services for the whole country, calculated on basis of
sources of funding. Health expenditure from government budget refers to
budgetary allocation for health undertakings by governments at all levels.
Social health expenditure refers to non-government budgetary capital input,
mainly the health insurance. It includes expenditure on health institutions run
by enterprises and rural collective entities, expenditure on medical and health
care of employees of enterprises, and excessive health expenditure of
government employees that could be covered by the government health care
system. Health expenditure on individuals refers to expenditure on health
service and health insurance paid by residents from their disposable income.