Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Labour Force
refer to the number of population at working
ages (aged 16 and over) who have capacity for physical labour,
have engaged in social labour or not.
Employment
Personnel
refer to the persons aged 16 and over who
are engaged in social labour and receive remuneration
payment or earn business income, including employment personnel worked in
non-private units in urban areas, employment personnel worked in township
enterprises, rural labour engaged in farming,
forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, employees in private enterprises and
individual economy, employers of private enterprises and individual economy and
other employment personnel. Social employment personnel include not only those
in urban areas, but also those in rural areas.
Emplayment Personel in Urban Non-private Units
refers to the persons who work in various legal person units and receive
payment from the units, including on-post staff and workers and other
employment personnel.
On-post
Staff and Workers refer to staff and workers
working in the units, signed working contracts and received wages, social
insurance and housing fund, including those receive wages from units but are
temporarily absent from work for reasons of study, work or on sick, injury or
maternal leave. In order to accurately reflect the employment situation of the
industry, from 2011 onwards, we have carried out separate statistics of the
labor dispatch personnel in the on-post staff and workers.
Other
Employment Personnel refer to the personnel out of
on-post staff and workers, which are working in the units and receiving wages
or other forms of payment, including part-time staff, re-employed retirees,
employees holding the second job, and foreigners and Chinese compatriots from
Employment
Personnel in Private Enterprises and Individual Economy in Urban Area
refer to the employment personnel in the
private enterprises which have been registered at the departments of industrial
and commercial administration and are situated at a town (i.e. at the town
where the county government is located) for business operation or at urban
areas with the level higher than a county town, including investor of the
enterprises and persons employed.
The individual economy 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 labourers
who work in the individual households engaged in industrial or commercial
business.
Registered
Unemployed Personnel in Urban Area
refer to the persons who are registered as
permanent residents in the urban areas engaged in non-agricultural activities,
aged within the range of working age (16-retired age), capable to labour, unemployed but desirous to be employed and have
been registered at the local employment service agencies to apply for a job.
Registered
Unemployed Rate in Urban Area
refers to the ratio of the number of the registered unemployed persons to
the sum of the number of employed persons and the registered unemployed
persons. The formula is as follows:
Registered
Urban Unemployment Rate =
Total
Remuneration
It is revised according to the Provisions on the Composition of Total Wages
refers to the total remuneration payment to all employed persons in various
units during the reporting period (by quarter or by year).
Total remuneration consist
of basic salary, performance pay, wage-equivalent subsidy and other wages,
excluding the deduction of sick leave, personal leave and others.
Salary can also be called as the standard wage, contract wage or
negotiation wage. It refers to the remuneration payment to the employed persons
in the units, who provide normal work in accordance with the statutory working
hours during the reporting period (by quarter or by year). Basic wage is the
basic salary determined by the unit, including the seniority wage, excluding
the timing and fixed payment of bonuses, allowances and subsidies, overtime
wages, and the basic wages of the last quarter or last year.
Performance
Pay can also be called as the benefit wage or
achievement wage. It refers to the bonuses payment to the employed persons
according to the unit profit growth and work performance, the excess labor
remuneration and remuneration of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure
paid to the employed persons. It includes the duty wage, overtime wage,
performance bonus(the annual, quarterly, monthly), full attendance award,
production award, economy award, labor contest award and other awards, the
percentage wage after the completion of a work and the double pay in the end,
but does not include the bonus shares, equity incentive cash money and other
capital gains.
Wage-equivalent
Subsidy refer to according to the employee wage
policy of the unit, the allowance of compensating for the employed persons of
special or extra labor and paying for other special reasons, and the price
subsidies for ensuring that the wage level is not affected by the price. It
includes the allowance of compensating for special or extra labor and post
allowance, health care allowance, technical allowance, area allowance and other
allowance, such as festival bonus, communication subsidy, traffic subsidy,
holiday subsidy, no canteen subsidy, housing subsidy and various commercial
insurance. All the above items include money, real objects and various forms of
recharge cards and shopping cards (tickets).
Other
Wages refer to the wages paid to the employed
persons that not included in the basic Salary, performance pay, wage-equivalent
subsidy, such as the reissue salary of the last year.
Average
Wage
refer to the average per capita income wage in report period. The formula
is as follows:
average Wage =
