16-42  Basic Statistics on Trade Unions
             
Year Number of Grassroots Unions (unit) Membership and Number of Staff and Workers in Grassroots Unions (10 000persons) Number of Full- time Personnel of Unions (10 000 persons)
Number of Staff and Workers   Number of Membership  
#Female #Female
1980 3255 84.2 30.25 67.13 20.42 0.48
1985 6165 189.48 73.84 151.93 59.03 0.5
1990 10685 231.48 90.64 196.58 76.97 0.79
1995 14457 271.43 114.13 254.49 104.97 1.19
1996 11282 246.38 105.14 227.67 97.48 1.02
1997 11085 241.21 96.11 215.96 90.94 0.94
1998 10624 220.46 93.84 204.89 88.14 0.81
1999 10433 211.88 89.49 195.11 82.64 0.81
2000 13016 211.73 90.8 200.8 84.93 0.59
2001 18219 234.84 100.71 215.31 91.07 0.73
2002 20806 236.58 99.65 220.85 93.11 0.49