Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Total
Population refers to the total number of people alive at a certain point of time
within a given area.
The annual statistics on total population is
taken at midnight, the 3lst of December.
The household register population refers to
citizens in accordance with the "people's Republic of Household
Registration Ordinance" has been registered permanent residence.
The
resident population refers to the practical living
more than half year of the population.
Urban
Population and Rural Population Urban population refers to all people residing in cities and towns, while
rural population refers to population other than urban population.
Birth
Rate (or Crude Birth Rate) refers to the ratio of the number of births to the average population (or
mid-period population) during a certain period of time (usually a year),
expressed in ‰. Birth rate in the chapter refers to annual birth rate. The
following formula is used:
Brith Rate= Number of Births/Annual Average Number of Population*1000
Number of births in the formula refers to
live births, i.e. when a baby has breathed or showed any vital phenomena
regardless of the length of pregnancy.
Annual average population is the average of
the number of population at the beginning of the year and that at the end of
the year. Sometimes it is substituted by the mid-year population.
Death
Rate (or Crude Death Rate) refers to the ratio of the number of deaths to the average population (or
mid- period population) during a certain period of time (usually a year),
expressed in‰. Death rate in the chapter refers to annual death rate. The
following formula is used:
Death Rate =Number of Deaths/ Annual Average
Number of Population*1000
Natural
Growth Rate of Population refers to the ratio of natural increase
in population(number of births minus number of deaths)in a certain period of
time(usually a year)to the average population(or mid-period population)of the
same period , expressed in‰. The following formula is applied:
Natural Growth Rate of Population= Number of
Births-Number of Deaths / Annual Average Number of Population *1000
Natural Growth Rate of Population=Birth
Rate-Death Rate
Economically
Active Population refers to the population aged 16 and over who are capable of working, are
participating in or willing to participate in economic activities, including
employed persons and unemployed persons.
Employed
Persons refer to persons aged 16 and over who are engaged in gainful employment
and thus receive remuneration payment or earn business income. This indicator
reflects the actual utilization of total labour force
during a certain period of time and is often used for the research on
Persons
Employed in Various Units refer to the total number
of employees who work at his unit and obtain wages or other forms of payment at
the end of the reporting 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 labour 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;
4)persons who dissolve labor contracts with their units on the last day of
reporting period or before.
State-owned
Units refer to economic units whose assets are
owned by the state.Included are non-corporation units
registered according to Regulation of the People’s Republic of China on the
Registration of Enterprises and Corporation ,state argans,institutions
and social organizations at the central and local levels.
Collective-owned
Units refer to economic units registered according to Regulation of the
People’s Republic of
Units
of Other Types of Ownership refer to units registered with other
types of ownership,including cooperative units,joint ownership units,limited
companies,share holding corporation,units
invested by entrepreneurs from
Persons
Employed in Private Enterprises and Self-Employed Individuals in Urban Areas Persons employed
in private enterprises refer to the persons employed in the private enterprises
which have been registered at the departments of industrial and commercial
administration for which the business operation are situated at a county town
(i.e. a town where the county government is located), or at urban areas with
administrative hierarchy higher than a county town. The self-employed
individuals in urban areas refer 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 individual households.
Employed
Staff and Workers refer 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. )
1)Employed Staff and Workers do not include: Dispatched personnel who work and
are paid directly by the working units; they shall be counted into “labour dispatch personnel” of the working units;
2)Personnel through labor outsourcing, they shall be counted into “employed
staff and workers” of the units which contracted them.
Total
Wage 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 worker during a certain period of time, one major indicator to
reflect the wage level. It is
calculated as follows:
Average Wage =Total Wage Bill of Empioyed Perons at Reference Time
/Average Number of Persons Employed at Reference Time
Average
Wage Indices refers to the ratio of average wage of employed persons the reference
period to that at the base period, which reflects the change of wage of
employed persons at the different period. It is calculated as follows:
Average Wage Indices = Average Wage of
Employed Persons at Reference Time / Average Wage of Persons Employeds at Base Period *100%
Average
Real Wage Indices average real wage of employed persons
refers to the average wage of employed persons after removing the effects of
the price changes and average real wage indices of employed persons refers to
the change of real wage, which reflects the relative increasing or decreasing
level of real wage of employed persons ,which is calculated as follows:
Average Real Wage Indices =Average Wage
Indices of Employed
Persons at the Reference Time / Urban Consumer Price Indices at
Reference Time *100%
Registered
Unemployed Persons in Urban Areas refer 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 employment service agencies to apply for
a job.
Registered
Unemployment Rate in Urban Areas refers to the ratio of the number of the
registered unemployed persons to the sum of the number of persons employed in
various units (minus the employed rural labour force,
re-employed retirees, and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan or foreign employees),
laid-off staff and workers in urban units, owners of private enterprises in
urban areas, owners of self-employed individuals in urban areas, employees of
private enterprises in urban areas, employee of self-employed individuals in
urban areas, and the registered unemployed persons in urban areas.