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 his unit and obtain wages or
other forms of payment at the end of the reporting 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 reporting 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 reporting 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.