Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
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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