Explanatory
Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Total
Income of Urban Households refers to the sum of wage and
salary, net business income, income from properties, and income from transfers
of members of the households, excluding income from selling of properties and
income from borrowings.
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 diaries. Following formula is used:
Disposable income = total
household income - income tax - personal contribution to social security -
sample household subsidy for keeping diaries
Consumption
Expenditure of Urban Households refers to total expenditure
of the sample households for consumption in daily life, including
expenditure on eight categories such as food, clothing, household appliances
and services, health care and medical services, transport and communications,
recreation, education and cultural services, housing, miscellaneous goods and
services.
Expenditure
of Urban Households on Consumption of Services refers to
expenditure of households on services of various kinds provided by the society.
Urban Households
by Income Group All households in the sample are grouped, by per capita
disposable income of the household, into groups of lowest income, low income,
lower middle income, middle income, upper middle income, high income and
highest income, each group consisting of 10%, 10%, 20%, 20%, 20%, 10% and 10%
of all households respectively. The lowest 5% of households are also referred
to as poor households.
Income from Rural Household Operations
refers to income by the rural households as units of production and operations.
Operations by rural households are classified by economic activities as
agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, manufacturing, construction,
transportation, post and telecommunications, wholesale, retail and catering,
social service, culture, education, health, and other household operations.
Net Income from Rural household 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 – taxes and fees paid - household operation expenses – taxes and
fees – depreciation of fixed assets for production – subsidy for participating
in household survey – gifts to non-rural relatives
Net
income is mainly used as input for reproduction 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 which reflects the average income level of rural households in a
given area