Explanatory
Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Total Income of Urban Households refers to the total actual
income of the sample households,including regular or fixed income and
occasional income. The income of a circulating nature such as withdrawal
from bank deposits, loans borrowed from relatives or friends,repayment of
loans received and various temporary collection of money is excluded.
Disposable Income of Urban Households
refers
to the income of the sample households which can be used for daily
expenses,i.e.. total income minus income tax,property tax and other
current transfers.
Expenditure for Consumption
of Urban Households
refers to total expenditure of the sample households for
consumption in daily life,including expenditure for various commodities
and expenses for non-commodity items such as culture and service, etc.
,but excluding fines and confiscation, loss, tax payments (such as income
tax, license tax,real estates tax,etc.) and various expenses by individual
laborers for business purposes.
Expenditure for Purchases of Commodities of Urban
Households refers to total expenses of
the sample households for the purchases of commodities, for their own use
or as gifts to relatives and friends, from shops, factories,catering
trade, canteens, markets and from the peasants. Such expenditure is
classified into eight categories:food, clothing, household appliances and
services, health care and medical services, transport and communications,
recreation, education and cultural services, housing, miscellaneous goods
and services.
Net Income of Rural Households refers
to the total income of the permanent residents of the rural households
during a year after the deduction of the expenses for productive and
non-productive business operation, the payment for taxes and the payment
for collective units for their contracted tasks, which can then be spent
for investments in productive and non-productive construction,
for consumption in
daily life and for savings deposit. It is a comprehensive indicator to
show the actual level of the income of the peasants household. The net
income of the rural households includes not only the income from the
productive and non-productive business operation, but also the income from
the non-business operation, such as the money remitted or brought back by
the members of the household who are in other places, the government
relief payment and various subsidies. It includes not only the money
income, but also the income in kind. But the income from borrowing from
banks, friends and relatives is excluded.
Expenditure of Rural Households for Consumption refers
to total expenses of rural households on daily life,including expenses on
food, clothing, housing, fuel, articles for daily use,and expenses on
cultural life and services. This indicator is used to show the actual
consumption level of peasants.
The
Savings Deposits of Urban and Rural Residents refers to the total value of savings deposits of
urban and rural households in banks and rural credit cooperatives at a
given point of time, including the savings deposit of urban residents and
the savings deposit of rural residents. The cash in hand by residents and
the deposits of organizations such as enterprises, military
units,government agencies, institutions, etc. are not included.
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