Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical
Indicators
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Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical
Indicators
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Economically Active Population refers
to the population aged 16 and over who are capable of working, are participating
in or willing to participate in economic activities, including employed persons
and unemployed persons.
Employed Persons refer to persons aged 16 and over who
are engaged in gainful employment and thus receive remuneration payment or earn
business income. This indicator reflects the actual utilization of total labour
force during a certain period of time and is often used for the research on
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 the 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 do not
include persons 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 for which the business operation are situated at a county town
(i.e. a town where the county government is located), or at urban areas with
administrative hierarchy 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 individual households.
Staff and Workers refer to persons working in, and receive
payment from units of state ownership, collective ownership, joint ownership,
share holding ownership, foreign ownership, and ownership by entrepreneurs from
State-owned Units refer to economic units whose assets are
owned by the state, including non-corporation units registered according to Regulation
of the People’s Republic of China on the Registration of Enterprises and
Corporations, state organs, institutions and social organizations at the
central-level and local levels.
Collective-owned Units refer to economic units registered
according to Regulation of the People’s Republic of China on the
Registration of Enterprises and Corporations where the means of production
are collectively owned.
Units of Other Types of Ownership refer to units registered with other
types of ownership, including cooperative units, joint ownership units, limited
liability corporations, share holding corporations, units funded by
entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and foreign- funded units.
Employed Staff and Workers refer to persons who work in, and
receive wages from their working units, including 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.
Total Wage Bill refers to the total remuneration payment
to staff and workers in various units during a certain period of time. The
calculation of total wage bill 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 wage bill regardless of sources,
reckoning the cost of production or not, category, listing as items of premium
taxation or not, and forms, paying in cash or in kind.
Average Wage 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 Indices refers to the ratio of average wage of
staff and workers at the reference period to that at the base period, which
reflects the change of wage of staff and workers at the different period. It is
calculated as follows:
Average Real Wage Indices average real wage of
staff and workers refers to the average wage of staff and workers after
removing the effects of the price changes and average real wage indices of
staff and workers refers to the change of real wage, which reflects the
relative increasing or decreasing level of real wage of staff and workers,
which is calculated as follows:
Earning refer to
total remuneration payment to all employees in various units in urban areas
(did not include urban private units and self-employed individuals) during a
certain period of time, including staff and workers and other employees (i.e.,
reemployed retirees or those who are from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan province or
other countries).
Average
Earning refer to average earning level in money terms per employee in
the enterprise, institution and government organ during a certain period of
time, it is calculated as follows:
Professional Personnel refers to the persons who are engaged in
special professional work or in professional management who got the titles of a
professional post before 1983 or who were appointed to professional positions
since 1984.
Professional personnel specifically refers
to engineering professionals, agricultural professionals, scientific research
professionals (natural science researchers, social science researchers and
laboratory technicians), health professionals, teaching professionals
(including institutions of higher education, specialized secondary schools, technical
schools, regular secondary schools, and primary schools), civil aviation
professionals, nautical professionals, economic professionals, accounting professionals, statistical
professionals, interpretation professionals, library professionals, archives
professionals, professionals of culture, arts and cultural relics, newsman and
publishing professionals, lawyers, notary professionals, radio and television
announcers, industrial arts professionals, sports professionals, artists and
political professionals.
Professional management personnel
specifically refers to the managers of enterprises and institutions, the
personnel engaged in the management of production, technical, economic
management and political aspects in the functional departments under the
enterprise and institution, production workshops and accessorial workshops (or
accessorial production units) under the enterprises.
Professional personnel do not include
personnel under or managed according to the system of civil servants.
Registered Unemployed Persons in Urban
Areas refer to the persons
with non-agricultural household registration at certain working ages (16 years
old to retirement age), who are capable of working, unemployed and willing to
work, and have been registered at the local employment service agencies to
apply for a job.
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
persons employed in various units (minus the employed rural labour force,
re-employed retirees, and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan or foreign employees),
laid-off staff and workers in urban units, owners of private enterprises in
urban areas, owners of self-employed individuals in urban areas, employees of
private enterprises in urban areas, employee of self-employed individuals in
urban areas, and the registered unemployed persons in urban areas. The formula
is as follows:
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