Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
I.
Urban Households
Population
of urban households refers to members of the
household living and sharing economically together. All income and expenditure
of the population of the household are included in the income and expenditure
of the household.
Total
Income of Urban Households refers to the sum of
wage income; net business income; income from properties; and income from
transfers of members of the households. Income from selling of properties and
income from borrowing are not included.
Disposable
Income of Urban Households refers to the actual
income at the disposal of members of the households which can be used for final
consumption, other non-compulsory expenditure and savings. This equals to total
income minus income tax, personal contribution to social security and sample
household subsidy for keeping dairies.
Total
Expenditure of Urban Households refers to all
actual expenditure of households except expenditure on lending. It includes
cash expenditure; property expenditure, transfer expenditure, social insurance
expenditure and expenditure on house purchasing or house building.
Consumption
Expenditure of Urban Households in Cash refers to total cash expenditure of
households for consumption in daily life,
including expenditure on the eight categories of food, clothing,
housing, household appliances, transport and communications, education,
cultural and recreational activities and medical care.
II.
Rural Households
Usual
Resident Population refers to persons staying at
home regularly or for over 6 months during a year and integrated with the
household economically and in terms of living. Members of the household staying
away from the household for over 6 months but keeping a close economic relation
with the household by sending the majority of income to the household are
regarded as usual resident of the household. Government staff and workers or
retirees living as close members of the household are also considered as usual
resident. However, servicemen, students of secondary technical schools or
schools of higher education and persons with stable jobs and residence outside
the household (excluding those visiting relatives or seeking medical service)
are not included as resident population of the household. Resident population
is used in calculating income, consumption, accumulation on per capita basis of
rural households and in analyzing composition of rural households.
Full/Semi
Labor Force Full labour
force refers to persons capable of work, aged 18-50
for males and 18-45 for females. Semi labour force
refers to persons capable of work, aged 16-17 and 51-60 for males and 16-17 and
46-55 for females. Persons at their working ages but not capable of work are
not to be included as labour force. Persons not at
working ages but participating regularly in work are included in semi labour force. For staff and workers as resident population
of the household, they are included as full or semi labour
force of the household if they are in the labour
force.
Total
Income of Rural Households refers to the sum of
income earned from various sources by the rural households and their members
during the reference period, and is classified as income from wages and
salaries, income from household operations, income from properties and income
from transfers.
Net
Income of Rural Households Net Income refers to the
total income of rural households from all sources minus all corresponding
expenses. The formula for calculation is as follows:
Net income = total income - household
operation expenses - taxes and fees - taxes and fees depreciation of fixed
assets for production - gifts to non-rural relatives
Net income is mainly used as input for
reinvestment in production and as consumption expenditure of the year, and also
used for savings and non-compulsory expenses of various forms. "Per capita
net income of farmers" is the level of net income averaged by population,
reflecting the average income level of rural population in a given area.
Total
Expenditure of Rural Households refers to total
expenses of rural households on production, consumption and redistribution,
including expenditure on household operations, on purchase of productive fixed
assets, depreciation of productive fixed assets, taxes and fees, expenses on
household consumption, expenses on properties and expenses on transfers.
Engel
Coefficient refers to the percentage of expenditure on food to the total consumption
in cash, using the following formula:
Engel Coefficient = (expenditure on food /
total expenditure in cash) x 100%
��. Social Security
Basic
Pension Insurance of Urban Workers
1.Number of people participated in the insurance programme:
by the end of reference period, number of staff and workers participated in the
insurance programme in line with national laws,
regulations and related policies, who have already had payment records in
social security management agencies, including those who interrupt payment but
not terminate the insurance programme. Those who have
no records are not included.
2.Number of retired and resigned people participated in the insurance programme: by the end of reference period, number of
retired and resigned staff and workers participated in the insurance programme.
3. Revenue of insurance refer to payments
made by units and individuals covered in pension insurance programs, and income
from other resources according to national provision, including the premium
paid by units and staff and works, interest income, subsidies from higher level
agencies, income as transfer from subordinate agencies, transferred income,
financial subsidies and other income.
Basic
Medical Care Insurance:
1.Number of people participated in the insurance program: refer to number of
people participated in the basic medical care insurance program according to
related regulation by the end of reference period.
2.Revenue of basic medical care insurance: refers to payments made by
employers and individuals participating in the medical care insurance programme in accordance with the basis and proportion
stipulated in State regulations, and income from other sources that become
source of medical insurance fund, including income paid by units, individual
paid income, financial assistance��s income (including individual income from medicaid),
financial subsidies�� income, interest income and other income.
Unemployment
Insurance
1.Number of people participated in unemployment insurance program: number of
staff and workers in urban enterprises or institutions and other people
according to local government regulations participated in unemployment
insurance program in line with national laws, regulations and related policies
by the end of the reference period.
2.Revenue of insurance: refers to the total unemployment insurance funds
raised in the reference period, including unemployment insurance premium,
interest income, financial subsidies, other income, transferred income,
subsidies from higher level agencies and income as transfer from subordinate
agencies.
Work
Injury Insurance
1.Number of people participated in work injury insurance: refers to staff
and workers who have participated in the work injury insurance programme and number of employees in private business
according to relevant national regulations at the end of the reference period.
2. Revenue of unemployment insurance: refer
to payments made by units and individuals covered in unemployment insurance
program, interest income, subsidies income from higher level agencies, income
as transfer from subordinate agencies, transferred income, financial subsidies
and other income.
Maternity
Insurance
1.Number of people participated in maternity insurance program according to
related regulation at the end of the reporting period.
2.Revenue of maternity insurance: refers to payments made by units covered in
maternity insurance program according to national provisions, and income from
other resources, including: income of funds paid by units, interest income and other
income.
Insurance
and Welfare Funds for Retired and Resigned Staff and workers refer to the total
living expenses actually received by those retirees, including those from
social insurance management agencies and units.
Number
of Urban Residents Entitled to Minimum Living Allowances refers to the number of those whose average family income is below
a minimum local standard by the end of the reporting period, including both the
employed and unemployed, laid off and retired, and those jobless people without
stable residence or valid IDs.
Number
of Rural Residents Entitled to Minimum Living Allowances refers to the number of those receiving the minimum living
allowances from the local government or community in the rural areas where this
allowances system is in place as of the end of the reporting period.
Households Enjoying Five Guarantees refers to those senior citizens, handicapped or under-aged who, without labor ability, can��t make a living by themselves and whose statutory providers are unable to support them or who have no statutory providers at all.