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
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
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:
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:
