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 the total number of
employees who work at various units and obtain wages or other forms of payment
at the end of the reference period. This indicator is a kind of time point
index and it equals to the sum of the number of employed staff and workers,
labor dispatch personnel and other employed persons. Employed persons do not
include:
1) persons who have
left their working units while keeping their labour
contract (employment relation) unchanged and receiving regular alimony;
2)students who do part-time jobs in spare time and all kinds of enrolled
students who do internship in various units;
3)persons employed due to labor outsourcing;
4)persons who dissolve labor contracts with their units on the last day of
reference period or before.
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 laborers who work in individual households.
Employed
Staff and Workers refer to persons who signed labor contracts with working units and
working units would pay wages, social insurance and housing funds for
them. 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 are
also included. Employed staff and workers also include:
1)Persons who should have signed the labor contracts but not (like people
with rural household registration);
2)Employees on probation;
3)Employees beyond the staffing quota;
4)Employees who are sent to other working units but still obtain wages from
their original units (situations like on-the-job placement, expatriated
assignment, etc. )
1)Employed Staff and Workers do not include: Dispatched personnel who work and
are paid directly by the working units; they shall be counted into “labour dispatch personnel” of the working units;
2)Personnel through labor outsourcing, they shall be counted into “employed
staff and workers” of the units which contracted them.
Total
Wage Bill It is revised according to the “Provision of Composition of Total
Wages” (Order No.1 by National Bureau of Statistics on January, 1st, ,1990), total wage bill refers to the total remuneration payment
to all employed persons in various units during the reporting period (by
quarter or by year), including hourly-paid wages, piece-rate wages, bonuses,
allowance and subsidies, overtime wages and wages paid under special circumstances.
It equals to the sum of total wages of employed staff and workers, dispatch
labors and other employed persons.
Total wage bill is pre-tax wages, including
the room charges, utility bills, housing funds and social insurance paid or
withheld by employee’s units.
Total wage bill, whether or not included in
cost, whether or not paid in money or in kind, shall be included in the
calculation of total wage.
Average
Wage refers to the average per capita wage in money terms during a certain
period of time for employed persons. It shows the general level of wage income
of staff and worker during a certain period of time, one major indicator to
reflect the wage level. It 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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