Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Employment
Personnel of Urban Households
refer to the persons who are engaged in social labour
and receive payment or earn business income, including the staff and workers in
the state-owned, the staff and workers in collective-owned, other employed,
employed persons individual business, etc. No matter he is permanent or
temporary.
Total
Income of Urban Households
refers to the total income of all the members of the sample households,
including wage, income from business, income from property, transfer income,
excluding proceeds from sales of belongings and credit income. It is calculated
on real income, no matter the income is supplied again or beforehand.
Accounting for the greater impact on small-sample-sized cities and counties,
large revenue-sharing can be credited, but the number of assessments should be
minimized and shared before the end of year.
Disposable
Income of Urban Households
refers to the disposable income of the sample households, including those
which can be used for final expenditure and other non-obligation expenditure
and savings. It refers to the difference of total income minus income tax,
expenditure for social security and subsidies of account. The following formula
is used :
Disposable Income of Urban Households = Total Income - Income Tax -
Expenditure for Social Security - Survey Subsidies
Wages
and Salaries of Urban Households refer to all labour compensation from working units, including the wage
of major career and the subsidies from the second career and other job.
Net
Business Income of Urban Households refer to net income
earned by household members from production and management activities, which
equals total income from production and management activities minus cost and
taxes (not minus individual income tax).
Property
Income of Urban Households refer to income from
movables (savings, securities) and non-movables (houses, land, etc.), including
interest income dividends and bonuses, income from leasing houses and
intellectual property income, etc.
Transferred
Income of Urban Households refer to income
transferred from state, unit, social organization to households or between
different households, including income, parental support, boarding fees paid by
relatives and friends and housing accumulation funds, etc.
Consumption
Expenditures of Urban Households
refer to total expenditures of the households in daily life. It is
classified into 8 categories: food, clothing, household facilities and articles
service, medicine and medical service, transportation and communication,
recreation, education and culture service, residence, miscellaneous commodities
services, including commodities and service as gift.
Service
Consumption Expenditures of Urban Households
refers to total non-commodity expenditures of the sample households for
consumption in culture and life, including service expenditure paid for other
persons. Service expenditure is different from commodity expenditure, with the
character of uniform of labour process and consumes
process in time and space.
Service Expenditure for Consumption of Urban
Households = Food Processing Service Fees + Dining Out Fees �� 50% + Tailoring
and Laundering Service Fees + Household Services Expenditures + Medical
Services Expenditures + Transportation Tools Service Fees + Transportation
Expenditures + Communications Service Expenditures + Cultural and Recreation
Service Expenditures + Education Expenditures + Rent + Room Decorations
Expenditures �� 40% + Residence Service Expenditures + Other Service
Expenditures
Rural
Permanent Population
refers to population staying at home permanently or for over 6 months
during a year and sharing life economically with the household. Members of the
household staying away from the household for over 6 months but keeping a close
economic life with the household by sending the majority of income to the
household are regarded as resident population of the household. Government
staff and workers or retirees living as close members of the household are also
considered as resident population. 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.
Full/Semi
Labour Force of Rural Households
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.
Disposable
Income of Rural Households
refers to the income of rural households gained after the initial
distribution and redistribution, which can be used for final expenditure,
non-obligation expenditure and savings.
Disposable Income of Rural Households =
Total Income - Expenses for Productive Operation - Taxes - Depreciation of
Fixed Assets for Production �C Property Expenditure �C Transferred Expenditure
Rewards
of Labours of Rural Households refers to income from labour earned by
members of rural households employed by other units or individuals. It
includes:
1. Income by members of rural households
employed by administration business units and social organizations, including
wages (cash awards and subsidy) of village staff and teachers in schools run by
the local people, wages (cash awards and subsidy) of staff employed by
administration business units at township and higher level.
2. Income earned at local region: income
from labour earned by members of rural households
employed by other units or individuals at local township.
3. Income of permanent residence outside the
region: income from labour earned by members of rural
households employed by other units or individuals outside of local
township.
Income
from Family Business of Rural Households refers
to income obtained from family productive operation. Family productive
operation cover farming, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, industry,
construction, transport, post, telecommunication, wholesale and retail trade,
catering, social services, culture, education, health care and other household
operation.
Property
Income of Rural Households refers to the income
received as returns by owners of financial assets or tangible non-productive
assets by providing capital or tangible non-productive assets to other
institutional units. It includes interest income, bonus stock income, rent
income, etc.
Transferred
Income of Rural Households refers to the
receipt by rural households and their members of goods, services, capitals or
rights of assets without giving or repaying accordingly, excluding capitals
provided to them for the formation of fixed assets. In general, it refers to
all income received by rural household through redistribution.
Living
Expenditures of Rural Households
is use on material life and cultural life by
rural households, including food expenditure, clothing expenditure, residence,
household facilities, articles and services, medicines and medical services, transportation
and communications, cultural, education and recreation articles and services,
other commodity and services.
Engel��s
Coefficient
refers to the percentage of expenditure on food in the total living
consumption expenditure, using the following formula:
Engel's Coefficient
=expenditure on food/living consumption
expenditure��100%