Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
I.
Urban Households
Population
of Urban Households refer to members of households
living and sharing economically together in the urban areas. All the income and
expenditure of all the members of such households are included in the income
and expenditure of the household.
Proportion
of Urban Employment refers to the proportion of
employed population to the population of urban households.
Number
of Dependents per Urban Employee refers to the ratio between number of persons in an urban household and
the number of employed persons.
Total
Income of Urban Households refers to the sum of wage income; net business income; income from
properties; and income from transfers of members of the households. Income from
selling of properties and income from borrowing are not included.
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 subsidy for keeping diaries in being a sample household.
The following formula is used:
Disposable Income of Urban Households=
total household income - income tax - personal contribution to social security
- subsidy for keeping diaries for a sampled household
Total
Expenditure of Urban Households refers to all actual expenditure of households except expenditure on
lending. It includes cash expenditure; property expenditure, transfer
expenditure, social insurance expenditure and expenditure on house purchasing
or house building.
Consumption
Expenditure of Urban Households in Cash refers to total cash expenditure of
households for consumption in daily life,
including expenditure on the eight categories of food; clothing;
housing; household appliances; transport and communications; education,
cultural and recreational
activities and medical care.
Consumption
Expenditure of Urban Households on Services refers to non-commodity service
expenditure of households on various kinds of cultural and living activities
provided by 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.
Engel’s
Coefficient refers to the percentage of expenditure
on food to the total consumption in cash, using the following formula:
II.
Rural Household
Rural
Households refer to usual resident households in rural areas. Usual resident
households in rural areas are households residing on a long term basis(for more
than one year) in the areas under the administration of township governments
(not including county towns), and in the areas under the administration of
villages in county towns. Households residing in the current addresses for over
one year with their household registration in other places are still considered
as resident households of the locality. For households with their household registration
in one place but all members of the households having moved away to make a
living in another place for over one year, they will not be included in the
rural households of the area where they are registered, irrespective of whether
they still keep their contracted land.
Usual
Resident Population refers to persons staying at home regularly or for over 6 months during a
year and integrated with the household economically and in terms of living.
Members of the household staying away from the household for over 6 months but
keeping a close economic relation with the household by sending the majority of
income to the household are regarded as usual resident of the household.
Government staff and workers or retirees living as close members of the household
are also considered as usual resident. However, servicemen, students of
secondary technical schools or schools of higher education and persons with
stable jobs and residence outside the household (excluding those visiting
relatives or seeking medical service) are not included as resident population
of the household. Resident population is used in calculating income,
consumption, accumulation on per capita basis of rural households and in
analyzing composition of rural households.
Full/Semi
Labour Force Full labour force refers to persons capable of
work, aged 18-50 for males and 18-45 for females. Semi labour
force refers to persons capable of work, aged 16-17 and 51-60 for males and
16-17 and 46-55 for females. Persons at their working ages but not capable of
work are not to be included as labour force. Persons
not at working ages but participating regularly in work are included in semi labour force. For staff and workers who are usual
residents, are included as full or semi labour force
of the household if they are in the labour force.
Total
Income
refers to the sum of income earned from various sources by the rural
households and their members during the reference period, and is classified as
income from wages and salaries, income from household operations, income from
properties and income from transfers.
Income
from Wages and Salaries refers to income from labour earned by the
members of rural households employed by other units or individuals.
Income
from Household Operations refers to income by the rural households as units of production and
operation. Operations by rural households are classified according to their
economic activities namely agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, manufacturing,
construction, transportation, post and telecommunications, wholesale, retail
and catering, social service, culture, education, health, and other household
operations.
Income
from Properties refers to the income received as returns by owners of financial assets or
tangible non-productive assets by providing capitals or tangible non-productive
assets to other institutional units.
Income
from Transfers refers to the receipt by rural households and their members of goods,
services, capital or rights of assets without giving or repaying accordingly,
excluding capital provided to them for the formation of fixed assets. In
general, it refers to all income received by rural households through
redistribution.
Cash Income refers to income received by rural households and their members in the
form of cash during the reference period. It is classified, by source of
income, into income from wages and salaries, cash income from household
operations, income from properties and income from transfers.
Net
Income of Rural Households refers to the total income of rural households from all sources minus all
corresponding expenses. The formula for calculation is as follows:
Net income of rural households = total
income - household operation expenses - taxes and fees-depreciation of fixed
assets for production - gifts to rural relatives.
Net income is mainly used as input for
reinvestment in production 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,
reflecting the average income level of rural population in a given area.
Total
Expenditure refers to total expenses of rural households on production, consumption
and redistribution, including expenditure on household operations; purchase of
productive fixed assets; taxes and fees; consumption expenditure; expenses on
properties; and expenses on transfers.
Ш Social Insurance
Basic
Pension Insurance
1.
Number of staff and workers covered refer to staff and workers participating in the basic pension insurance programme according to national laws, regulations and
related policies at the end of the reference period, who have already had
payment records in social security management agencies, including those who
have interrupt payment without terminating the insurance programme.
Those who have registered in the programme but with
no payment records are not included.
2.
Number of retirees participating in the basic pension insurance programme refer to the number of retirees participating in basic pension insurance programmes by the end of the reference period.
3.
Revenue of the basic pension insurance programme refers to payments made
by employers and individuals participating in the pension insurance programme in accordance with the basis and proportion
stipulated in State regulations, and income from other sources that become
source of pension insurance fund, including the premium paid by employers and
staff and workers, interest income, subsidies from higher level agencies,
income as transfer from subordinate agencies, transferred income, government
financial subsidies and other income.
4.
Expenditure of basic pension insurance programme refer to payment made on
pensions and funeral subsidies to those retired and resigned people covered in
pension insurance programmes according to related
national policies on scope and standard of expenditure. Also included are expenditure which arises due to shift of the insurance
relationship or adjustment of funds among agencies. More specifically, included
are pensions for resigned people,
pensions for retired people, pension for people quitting jobs, various
subsidies, medical fees, funeral subsidies, compensation payments, management fees
for social security agencies, expenses on subsidies to lower subordinates,
expenses as transfer to agencies at higher level, transferred expenditure and
other expenditure.
5.
Balance of basic pension insurance programme
refers to the balance of basic pension
insurance funds at the end of the reference period after deducting expenses
from revenue.
Basic
Medical Care Insurance
1.
Number of people participating in the insurance programme refers to people participating in the basic medical care insurance programme according to related regulations at the end of
the reference period.
2.
Revenue of the insurance programme refers to payments made by employers and individuals participating in the
medical care insurance programme in accordance with
the basis and proportion stipulated in State regulations, and income from other
sources that become source of medical insurance fund, including income paid by
units, individual paid income, financial assistance’s income (including
individual income from medicaid), financial
subsidies’ income, interest income and other income.
3.
Expenditure of the insurance programme refers to payment made
to people covered in basic medical care insurance programme
within the scope and standards of expenditure according to related national
policies, and medical care payment and other expenses, including medical
expenses of hospital inpatients, medical expenses for outpatients and emergency
patients, payment from individual accounts and other expenditure.
4.
Balance of the basic medical care insurance programme refers to the balance of medical care insurance funds at the end of the
reference period.
Unemployment
Insurance
1.
Number of people covered refers to staff and workers in urban enterprises or institutions who have
participated in the unemployment insurance programme
according to relevant policies and regulations, and other people who have
participated according to local government regulations at the end of the
reference period.
2.
Revenue of the unemployment insurance programme refers to the total unemployment insurance funds raised in the reference
period, including unemployment insurance premium, interest income, financial
subsidies, other income, transferred income, subsidies from higher level
agencies and income as transfer from subordinate agencies.
3.Expenditure of the unemployment insurance programme refers to total
expenses during the reference period to guarantee the basic livelihood of
unemployed people, and to encourage their re-employment. Included are
unemployment relief, medical fees,funeral subsidies,
compensation payments, training expenses, management fees for unemployment
insurance agencies, subsidies to lower level agencies, expenses as transfer to
higher level agencies, transferred expenditure and other expenditure.
4.
Balance of the unemployment insurance programme refers to the balance of revenue of the programme
after deducting expenses at the end of the reference period.
Work
Injury Insurance
1.
Number of people covered refers to staff and workers who have participated in the work injury
insurance programme and number of employees in
private business according to relevant national regulations at the end of the
reference period.
2.
Number of beneficiaries refers to number of people benefited from work injury insurance, as a
result of work injury or occupational disease. It is the sum of beneficiaries from the
work injury medical treatment without rating, disabilities and deaths at work
places.
3.
Revenue of the work injury insurance programme
refers to payments made by employers
participating in the work injury insurance programme
in accordance with the basis and proportion stipulated in State regulations,
and income from other sources that become source of work injury insurance fund,
including income of social comprehensive funds paid by employers, government
financial subsidies, interest income and other income.
4.
Expenditure of the work injury insurance programme refers to payments made
from work injury insurance funds to those who participated in the work injury
insurance programme and their direct dependents
within the scope and standards of expenditure according to related national
policies, and other expenditure, including medical fees for work injury, injury
and disability subsidies, death subsidies, nursing fees, funeral subsidies,
injury prevention fees, occupational rehabilitation fees and other expenditure.
5.
Balance of the work injury insurance programme
refers to the balance of the work injury
funds at the end of the reference period.
Maternity
Insurance
1.
Number of people covered refers to people who have participated in the maternity insurance programme according to relevant regulation at the end of
the reference period.
2.
Revenue of maternity insurance refers to payments made by employers participating in the maternity
insurance programme in accordance with the basis and
proportion stipulated in State regulations, and income from other sources that
become source of maternity insurance fund, including income of funds paid by
employers, interest income and other income.
3.
Expenditure of the maternity insurance programme
refers to payments made from maternity
insurance funds to staff and workers who participate in the maternity insurance
programme within the scope and standards of
expenditure in accordance with related national policies, expenses paid for
pregnancy, child delivery or surgeries related to family planning, and other
expenditure, including allowance for child bearing, medical fees and other
expenditure.
4.
Balance of the maternity programme
refers to the balance of the maternity
insurance funds at the end of the reference period.