Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
The Integration of Urban and
Rural Household Survey
In the fourth quarter of 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics launched its reform on
the household survey programme in order to produce
aggregates with the same concepts and definitions for the urban and rural
population. This new survey programme is an
integrated one whereas there had existed two separate household surveys for the
urban and rural households. The reform took a number of measures, including the
integration of concepts, classification and standards,which provided a basis for producing data covering
households. The survey implemented since 2013, and publish
the new standard integrated household survey data since the first quarter of
2014. There were 387 survey drawing area, about 4000 households selected in Tianjin, which contain the urban 3000 households and the
rural 1000 households.
Permanent Members
refers
to household members, often living at home, or reside during the investigate
period for more than half, and the students supported by the household.
Permanent members of the household are the survey object.
Disposable Income
refers to the kind of income that households can have at
their disposal.It includes income both in cash and in
kind from four categories:income from wages and salaries,cash income from household operations,income
from properties and income from transfers.
Wages and Salaries
refer to employment through various means to get all the
labor remuneration and benefits, including employed by units or individuals, is
engaged in a variety of freelancing, part-time and sporadic labor to get all
the labor remuneration and welfare.
Net Business Income
refers to the net income earned by households or household members from
production and management activities, which is all operating income deducted
operating costs, productive fixed assets depreciation and production tax ,and
Including the first, second and tertiary industry business net income.
Property Income
refer to households or household members should be owned retribution
by the financial assets, housing and other non-financial assets, natural
resources for other agencies and institutions and deducting costs associated .
Transferred Income
refer to income transferred from state, unit, social
organization to households or between different households.
Consumption Expenditures
refer to total expenditures of the households for consumption in
daily life, which include for consumer goods and service consumer expenditures.
According to different purposes, 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. According to different sources , consumer spending can be divided
into cash consumption expenditure, material consumer expenditure
(including produce their own, from units, from government and other social
organizations)
Food,
Alcohol and Tobacco: used for various food and tobacco, alcohol, including food
and tobacco classes .
Clothing:
refer to the
related expenditure to the residents, including clothing, clothing materials,
footwear and other clothing and accessories, clothing related processing
services spending.
Residence: refers
to the expenses related to the living, including rent, water, electricity,
fuel, property management, also including home-ownership reduced rents.
Househald Supplies and Services: refers to the family and personal
items and services. Such as furniture and interior decorations, home
appliances, home textiles, home daily groceries, personal care and household
services.
Transportation
and Communication:
refers to the expenditure on services, maintenance and vehicle insurance used
in transportation and communication tools.
Education,
Culture and Recreation Services: refers to spending for education, cultural and entertainment.
Medicine
and Medical Services: refer to the total cost of goods and services used in medical
treatment and health care drugs, Including medical instruments and medicine and
medical services.
Other
Commoditiet and Services: refers to the other products and
services which don��t directly classify into all kinds of above.
Home-ownership
Convert Net Rents
Refers
to the households obtained net rents after deducting depreciation for their own
consumption reduced net rental value , whose housing property is home-ownership
(including the self-built housing, purchasing commodity house, purchasing housing
reform, purchasing Indemnificatory housing, arrangement housing for dismantling,
inheritance or gift). Home-ownership convert net rents are physical income from
property.
Home-ownership
Convert Rents
Refers
to the households obtained rents for their own consumption reduced net rental
value , whose housing property is home-ownership (including the self-built
housing, purchasing commodity house, purchasing housing reform, purchasing
Indemnificatory housing, arrangement housing for dismantling, inheritance or
gift).
Home-ownership
convert rents is calculated by depreciation method t. It belongs to the physial consumer expenditure, excluding expenditure in
cash.
Engel's Coefficient
refers to the percentage of expenditure on food in the total
living consumption expenditure, using the following for mula:
