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.
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�CIncome Tax�CExpenditure for Social
Security�CSurvey 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.
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�CTaxes�CDepreciation of Fixed Assets for Production Property
Expenditure Transferred Expenditure.
Rewards
of Labours of Rural Households refer employment obtained all of the labor remuneration and welfare
through various means, including employed by units or individuals, engaging in
a variety of freelance and part-time and sporadic. Labor remuneration and
welfare refer employment obtained various cash payment, physical products,
service at a discount and other cash labor payment excluding salary from units
and employers, also include all kinds of social-security paid by units.
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
are 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:
