Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

 

 

 


 

Culture and Related Industries  refer to the aggregate of activities, providing the mass with culture goods, amusement goods and services. According to the characteristics of culture goods, amusement goods and services, they can be classified into two categories, or nonprofit cultural activities and profit cultural activities.

Culture and related industries is the important component of the tertiary industry. These are the derivative sector from the Industrial Classification of the National Economy and are composed of two categories of culture services and related cultural services.

Culture services  mainly include news services, publishing and copyright services, radio, television, film, arts, network, recreation, and other cultural services.

Related cultural services  mainly include cultural stationery, equipment and related cultural goods, and the sales of cultural stationery, equipment and related cultural goods.

Non-culture and Related Industries  refer to the other activities sponsored by the cultural sectors, which do not belong to the culture and related industries.

Arts Performance Troupes  refer to the various professional performing arts groups, which sponsored by the cultural sectors or guided by the cultural society (approved by the cultural market administration, or registered and permitted with the relative certificate), including non-governmental troupes, such as drama troupes, dialect troupes, comedy troupes, children troupes, Opera troupes, puppetry troupes, Shadowgraph troupes, etc., comprehensive professional arts performance troupes. The semi-working and semi-farming arts troupes are not included.

Arts Performance Places   refer to the various sites for cultural activities, which sponsored by the cultural sectors or guided by the cultural society (approved by the cultural market administration, or registered and permitted with the relative certificate), with the facility of auditorium, stage, and lighting, and selling tickets in public, specially performed by arts troupes, including theatre, concert halls, opera halls, dance halls, drama halls, cinemas, circus fields, and other showplaces for the performing arts. The cinemas, auditoriums, stadiums, and arts museums, such as art galleries, painting houses, sculpture houses, are not included.

Cultural Market Operating Units   refer to the units dealing in culture and cultural services, which registered and permitted with the relative certificate by cultural market administration.

Radio Coverage of Population  refers to the percentage of population, which can listen to one of central, provincial, city, prefecture, and county radio programs by wireless, cable, satellite and other technical means, in the surveying area, to national total population, according to Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the State Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television.

Television Coverage of Population  refers to the percentage of population, which can watch one of central, provincial, city, prefecture, and county television programs by wireless, cable, satellite and other technical means, in the surveying area, to national total population, according to Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the State Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television.

Cable Television Coverage of Household  refers to the percentage of household, which can watch television by cable of radio and television network, to national total household.

National Comprehensive Archives  refer to all archives institution, which are directly conducted by the central and local levels archives administration, collecting and keeping various documents and materials by administrative regions or historical periods.

Health Care Institutions  refer to the units which have been qualified the Certification of Health Care Institution by the administration of public health, or qualified the Certification of Corporate Unit by the civil affairs, administration for industry and commerce, commission office for public sector reform, and engaging in medical care, disease prevention and control, health supervision and inspection, medicine research and health education, etc., including: hospitals, sanatoriums, community health service centers (stations), health centers, clinics (health stations and infirmaries), first-aid centres (stations), blood gathering and supplying institutions, women and children care agencies (centres and stations), special disease prevention and curing agencies (centres and stations), disease prevention and control centres (epidemic prevention stations), health supervision and inspection agencies, sanitary inspection institutions, medicinal scientific research and on-job training institutions, health education centres and so on.

Medical Organizations  refer to the institutions which have been qualified the Certification of Health Care Institution by the administration of public health, including: hospitals, sanatoriums, community health service centers (stations), health centers, clinics (health stations and infirmaries), women and children care agencies (centres and stations), special disease prevention and curing agencies (centres and stations), first-aid centres (stations) and clinic inspection centers.

Community Health Service Centres (stations)  refer to the primary units that provide the health care for community residents, such as disease prevention and control, medical treatment, health care, rehabilitation, health education, family planning technical services, including community health service centres and community health service stations.

Health Care Employee  refer to all employee engaged in the health care institutions, such as medical organizations,  disease prevention and control centres, health care agencies, medicinal scientific research and on-job training institutions, including medical technical personnel, other technical personnel, manager and labour.

Medical Technical Personnel  refer to the professional staff engaged in health care, including licensed (assistant) doctors, registered nurse, pharmacists, laboratory technician, and imaging staff, excluding the medical technical personnel engaged in management job (included as the management staff).

Licensed Doctors   refer to the medical workers who have obtained the licenses of qualified doctors and are employed in medical treatment, disease prevention or healthcare institutions, excluding the licensed doctors engaged in management job. The classification of licensed doctors is clinician, Chinese medicine, dentist and public health.

Licensed Assistant Doctors  refer to the medical workers who have obtained the licenses of qualified assistant doctors and are employed in medical treatment, disease prevention or healthcare institutions, excluding the licensed assistant doctors engaged in management job. The classification of licensed assistant doctors is clinician, Chinese medicine, dentist and public health.

Number of Licensed (Assistant) Doctors per 10000 Population  the formula is:

Number of Licensed Doctors per 10000 Population = (Number of Licensed Doctors + Number of Licensed Assistant Doctors) / Population *10000

The population is the figure of household registration from the Ministry of Public Security.  

Number of Beds of Hospitals and Health Care per 10000 Population   the formula is:

Number of Beds of Hospitals and Health Care per 10000 Population = Number of Beds of Hospitals + Number of Beds of Health Care) / Population *10000

The population is the figure of household registration from the Ministry of Public Security.

Number of Medical Technical Personnel per 10000 Population  the formula is:

Number of Medical Technical Personnel per 10000 Population = Number of Medical Technical Personnel / Population *10000

The population is the figure of household registration from the Ministry of Public Security.  

Incidence Rate of Notifiable Infectious Diseases  refer to the incidence cases notifiable class A and class B infectious diseases per 100 thousand population in the reference region in the reference year. The formula is:

Incidence Rate of Notifiable Infectious Diseases = Incidence Cases Notifiable Class A and Class B Infectious Diseases / Population *10000

Death Rate of Notifiable Infectious Diseases  refer to the death cases notifiable class A and class B infectious diseases per 100 thousand population in the reference region in the reference year. The formula is:

Death Rate of Notifiable Infectious Diseases = Death Cases Notifiable Class A and Class B Infectious Diseases / Population *10000

Mortality Rate of Notifiable Infectious Diseases  refer to the ratio of death cases notifiable class A and class B infectious diseases to the incidence cases in the reference region in the reference year. The formula is:

Mortality Rate of Notifiable Infectious Diseases = Death Cases Notifiable Class A and Class B Infectious Diseases / Incidence Cases *100%

Maternal Mortality Rate  Maternal Mortality Rate = number of maternal deaths / live births * 100,000/ 100,000.

Numer of Live Birth refers to  the number of newborn having one of four indicators like heartbeat, breathing, umbilical cord pulsation and involuntary muscle contraction after childbirth with gestation of at least 28 weeks or above (if the gestation is not clear, please refer to the birth weight of 1000 grams and above).

Mortality Rate of Children under 5  Mortality Rate of Children under 5 = death number of children under 5 / live birth * 1000‰.

Newborn Mortality Rate  refers to the ratio of neonatal deaths of newbirth under the age of 28 days (0-27 days) in a year of the region to the total number of live births of this region.

Number of Persons Participated in the New Rural Cooperative Medical System  refers to the number of persons who have given payment to the new cooperative medical system by the deadline of fundraising during the year according to the implementation plan of the new system.

Expenditure of Funds for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System This Year  refers to expenditures on compensation funds for the new rural cooperative medical system from the fund account of new cooperative medical system this year.

Persons Benefited from the Compensation Expenditure of New Rural Cooperative Medical System  refers to the number of persons participated in the new system who have been compensated for medical treatment in the year, including hospitalization, family account form, out-patient, large special diseases out-patient, normal childbirth in hospital, medical examination and other compensations

Funds Raised for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System this Year  refers to the amount of funds raised this year and put into the special new rural cooperative medical account, including the matching funds of central and local governments, paid money by farmers (including relief funds paid by the civil affairs department and other relevant departments), all the interest income generated this year of the funds and funds actually raised from other channels this year. The amount of funding equals to the funds entering into the special new rural cooperative medical account, excluding the carry-over funds from the previous year.

Total Expenditure on Health  reflects the total expenditure on medical and health care services of a country in a year, estimated using funding source method. It includes government expenditure, social expenditure and individual cash expenditure.

Government Budgetary Expenditure for Public Health   refers to budgetary allocation for health undertakings by governments at all levels, including health expenditure, Chinese medicine practitioners’ operating expenses, food and drug supervision and management fees, operating expenses of family planning, medical research funding, budget for capital construction funding, health administration and health insurance management fees, health costs of other government departments, medical expenses of administrative departments and institutions, subsidies for basic medical insurance fund.

Social Expenditure for Public Health  refers to non-government budgetary capital input, mainly referring to social basic medical care insurance, other social medical care insurance, commercial health insurance, expenditure of non-health-department administrations for health care, expenditure of enterprises for health care, rural household expense on health care, extra-budgetary expenditure for health care in capital investment, private investment on practicing of health care, and extra-budgetary funds of public health institutions, etc.

Individual Cash Expenditure for Public Health  refers to cash expenditure for various health services by rural and urban household paid from the disposable income, including urban individual cash expenditure for public health and rural individual cash expenditure for public health.