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.
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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