19-17  Number of Institutions and Employed Persons in Insurance System at Year-end
Item	2007			2008
	Number of	Employed		Number of	Employed
	Institutions	Persons	Female	Institutions	Persons	Female
	(unit)	(person)		(unit)	(person)
Total	120	500441	247726	130	599344	305982
Insurance (Group) Corporations	8	4569	2234	8	1866	839
Domestic Funded Insurance Corporations	59	474917	233169	64	570879	289320
Head Offices	59	15992	7044	64	16732	7440
Provincial Branches	851	101240	50036	1055	132028	67178
Branches and Sub-branches in Center Cities	3835	162243	83743	5224	205811	108183
Sub-branches	9251	126920	58862	10348	134830	64572
Business Departments	3082	14114	6634	2529	15675	7643
Marketing Departments	39794	54338	26850	43818	65730	34304
Joint-venture Insurance Corporations	43	20955	12323	48	26599	15823
Head Offices	43	7718	4479	48	9834	5780
Provincial Branches	90	7259	4490	117	9609	5821
a) Number of employed persons excludes people engaged in marketing and agency service.