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.
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 employed persons in various units
during a certain period of time. The calculation of total wage bill is based on
the total remuneration payment to employed persons .
Therefore, all the wages and salaries and other payments to employed persons
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 employed persons 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 employed persons the reference period to
that at the base period, which reflects the change of wage of employed persons
at the different period. It is calculated as follows:
Average
Real Wage Indices average real wage of employed persons refers to the average wage of
employed persons after removing the effects of the price changes and average
real wage indices of employed persons refers to the change of real wage, which
reflects the relative increasing or decreasing level of real wage of employed
persons ,which 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:
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