Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Economically
Active Population refers to the population aged 16 and over who are capable to work, are
participating in or willing to participate in economic activities, including
employed persons and unemployed persons.
Persons
Employed refers 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 refers 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 labor 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.
Persons
Employed in Private Enterprises and Self-employed Individuals in Urban Areas Persons employed in private enterprises refers to the persons employed in
the private enterprises which have been registered at the departments of
industrial and commercial administration and are situated at a county town
(i.e. a town where the county government is located) for business operation or
at urban areas with the level higher than a county town. The self-employed
individuals in urban areas refers 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 the individual households engaged in industrial or
commercial business.
State-owned
Units refers to economic units whose assets are owned by the state. Including
non-corporation units registered according to Regulation of the People's
Republic of
Collective
Units refers to economic units registered according to Regulation of the
People's Republic of
Units
of Other Types of Ownership refers to units registered with other types of ownership, including
cooperative units, joint ownership units, limited companies, share holding
corporations, units invested by entrepreneurs from
Staff
and Workers refers 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. ).
Total
Wages 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 workers during a certain period of time, one major indicator to
reflect the wage level. It is
calculated as follows:
Average Wage ��Total Wage of Staff and Workers at the Report Period
/Average Number of Staff and Workers at the
Report Period
Average
Real Wage refers to average wage of staff and
workers after removing the effects of price changes, which is calculated as
follows:
Average Real Wage ��Average Wage of Staff and Workers
in Reference Period
/ Consumer Price Index of Urban Residents in
Reference Period
Average
Wage Indices refers to the ratio of average wage of staff and workers in the report
period to that in the base period, which reflects the change of wage of staff
and workers at the different period. It is calculated as follows:
Average Wage Indices = Average Wage of Staff
and Workers at the Report Period
/ Average Wage of Staff and Workers at the
Base Period��100%
Average
Real Wage Indices reflects the relative changing degree of average real wage, and indicates
the degree of the rising or declining degree of real wage of staff and worker,
which is calculated as following:
Average Real Wage Indices = Index of Average
Wage of Staff and Worker at the Report Time
/ Urban consumer prices index at the report
time ��100%
Registered
Unemployed Persons in Urban Areas refers 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 Department of labor and social security
to apply for a job.
Registered
Urban Unemployment Rate refers to the ratio of the number of the
registered unemployed to the sum of the number of persons employed in various
units(minus the rural labor force, retirees ,and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and
foreign employees they employ),laid-off workers in urban units, unban self-employed individuals and the registered unban unemployed persons.