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 =
