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.
Employed Persons refers to persons above a
specified age who had labour capacity and performed
some social work for compensation or business gains. Specifically, it refers to
all persons, aged 16 and over, who performed some work for compensation or
business gains for one hour or more during the reference period; or who had
work units or sites but were temporarily not at work during the reference
period.
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.