城镇居民家庭就业人口 指城镇居民从事社会劳动并取得劳动报酬或经营收入的人口。就业人口包括通过国家统筹规划和指导由劳动部门介绍就业，自愿组织起来就业和自谋职业等方式，在国有、集体所有制、中外合资、中外合作、外资在华独资的企事业单位和私营企业单位工作或从事个体劳动的有固定性职业或临时性职业的人口。被聘用和留用的离退休人员也计入就业人口。本指标可以反映城镇居民的就业情况，是计算就业面，负担系数的重要资料。
    城镇居民家庭实际收入 指被调查城镇居民家庭全部的实际现金收入，包括经常或固定得到的收入和一次性收入。不包括周转性收入，如提取银行存款、向亲友借入款、收回借出款以及其他各种暂收款。
    城镇居民家庭可支配收入 指被调查城镇居民家庭在支付个人所得税之后，所余下的实际收入。
    城镇居民家庭消费性支出 指被调查的城镇居民家庭购买商品和用于服务的全部支出，共分八类：食品；衣着；家庭设备、用品及服务；医疗保健；交通和通讯；娱乐、教育、文化服务；居住；杂项商品及服务。购买商品支出是指从商店、集市、饮食业、工作单位食堂以及直接从工厂和农村购买各种商品的支出，包括自用的和赠送亲友的在内；服务支出是指被调查的城镇居民家庭用于社会提供的各种文化和生活服务方面的支出，包括各种修理费、加工费、洗理美容费、医疗费、学杂费、娱乐费、保姆费、劳务费、物业管理费等。
    农村居民家庭纯收入 指农村常住居民家庭总收入中，扣除从事生产和非生产经营费用支出，缴纳税款和上交承包集体任务金额以后剩余的，可直接用于进行生产性、非生产性建设投资、生活消费和积蓄的那一部分收入。它是反映农民家庭实际收入水平的综合性的主要指标。农民家庭纯收入，既包括从事生产性和非生产性的经营收入，又包括取自在外人口寄回带回和国家财政救济、各种补贴等非经营性收入；既包括货币收入，又包括自产自用的实物收入。但不包括向银行、信用社和向亲友借款等属于借贷性的收入。
    农村居民家庭整半劳动力 指农村常住居民家庭成员中有劳动能力并经常参加实际劳动的人员。是生产的基本要素指标之一，是发展生产增加农民家庭收入的重要源泉。按规定，农村男18周岁至50周岁、女18周岁至45周岁为整劳动力；男16周岁到17周岁、51周岁到60周岁，女16周岁到17周岁、46周岁至55周岁为半劳动力。农民家庭整半劳动力，既包括在上述规定劳动年龄内和在劳动年龄以外有劳动能力并经常参加实际劳动的男女整半劳动力；也包括农民家庭常住人员中属于职工的劳动力。但不包括在劳动年龄内已丧失劳动能力的人员。
    农村居民家庭生活消费支出 指农村常住居民家庭年内用于日常生活的全部开支。它是用来反映和研究农民家庭实际生活消费水平高低的重要指标。农民家庭生活消费支出，包括用于吃、穿、住、烧、用等生活消费品开支和文化、生活服务费用开支两大部分。
    农村居民家庭商品性生活消费支出 指农村常住居民家庭用其货币收入，在市场上购买食品、衣着、家庭用家具器皿、日用杂品、燃料、耐用消费品、以及文教卫生用品等生活消费总量。包括向国有商店、集体商店和集市贸易市场以及其他流通渠道购买的全部生活消费品。农民家庭商品性生活消费支出，是农民家庭生活消费支出的一个重要组成部分，是用来反映和分析农民家庭生活消费水平的商品化程度，及其由自给性经济向商品经济发展趋势的重要指标，也是研究和预测农民家庭对市场消费品需求，制定商品供应计划的重要依据。
    商品零售价格指数 商品的零售价格是商品在流通过程中最后一个环节的价格，是工业、商业、餐饮业和其他零售企业向城乡居民、机关团体出售生活消费品和办公用品的价格。通过系统地调查、搜集和整理市场商品零售价格资料，编制商品零售价格指数，以此反映市场商品零售价格的变动趋势和变动程度。其目的在于掌握商品价格的变动动态，为国家宏观调控提供参考依据。同时，还可在此基础上编制出其他各种派生价格指数，为研究市场流通，进行国民经济核算提供科学依据。
    居民消费价格指数 居民消费价格指数是度量一组代表消费品服务项目价格水平随着时间而变动的相对数，反映居民家庭购买的消费品及服务价格水平的变动情况。它是宏观经济分析和决策、价格总水平监测和调控以及国民经济核算的重要指标。其按年度计算的变动率通常被用来作为反映通货膨胀（或紧缩）程度的指标。

Employed Population in Urban Households refers to urban residents engaged in certain work and receiving payment for their labor or income from their business operation, including those who work in state-owned or collective units, joint ventures, foreign-owned units and private units with permanent or temporary jobs. The self - employed individuals and reemployed retirees are also basic data for calculating employment rate and dependency ratio.
Actual Income of Urban Households refers to the total actual cash income of the sample households, including regular or fixed income and occasional income. The income of a circulating nature such as withdrawal from bank deposits, loans borrowed from relatives or friends, repayment of loans received and various temporary collection of money are excluded.
Disposable Income of Urban Households refers to the income of the sample households, which can be used for daily expenses, i. e. total income minus income tax.
Expenditure for Consumption of Urban Households refers to total expenditure of the sample households for consumption of commodities and services. The expenditure is classified into 8 items: food, clothing, household appliances, articles and services, medicine and medical services, transportation and communications, recreational, educational and cultural services, residence, miscellaneous commodities and services. Expenditure for purchases of commodities refers to total purchases of commodities from shops, k\markets, catering trade, canteens, and from factories and peasants directly, including the commodities are purchased for their own consumption or for gifts to relatives and friends. Expenses for services refer to expenditure of the sample households for various cultural and living services. All expenses for repair, processing, bathing and hairdressing, medical cares, tuition, recreation, child care, labor and residential management are included.
Net Income of Rural Households refers to the total income of the permanent residents of the rural households during a year after the deduction of the expenses for productive and non - productive business operation, the payment for taxes and the payment for collective units for their contracted tasks. The net income can be spent for investments in productive and non-productive construction, for consumption in daily life and for savings deposit. It is a comprehensive indicator to show the actual level of the income of the peasants' household. The net income of the rural households includes not only the income from the productive and non - productive business operation, but also the income from the non - business operation, such as the money remitted or brought back by the members of the household who are in other places, the government relief payment and various subsidies. It includes not only the money income, but also the income in kind. But the income from borrowing from banks, friends and relatives is excluded.
Able - bodied and Semi - able-bodied Laborers of Rural Households refer to permanent residents of rural households who are able to work and actually engaged in social labor, which are one factor of production and sources of rural household income. According to the relevant regulations, male aged 18-50, female aged 18-45 is considered as able-bodied laborers; male aged 16-17 and 51-60, female aged 16-17 and 46-55 are considered as semi - able-bodied laborers. Those who are nor in the above age range but able to work and actually engaged in social labor are also considered as able - bodied or semi - able-bodied laborers, while those who are within the above age range but unable to work are not counted as able - bodied or semi - able-bodied laborers.
Expenditure of Rural Households for Consumption refers to total expenses of rural households on daily life, including expenses on food, clothing, housing, fuel, articles for daily use, and expenses on cultural life and services. This indicator is used to show the actual consumption level of peasants.
Expenditure of Rural Households on Commodities refers to total expenses of the permanent residents of the rural households on purchases of food, clothing, furniture, household appliances, articles for daily use, fuels, durable goods, and cultural, educational and medicinal articles, including purchases from states-owned shops, collective shops, free markets, and etc. Expenditure of peasants for purchase of commodities is an important part of peasants' consumption expenditure, which reflects the extent of commercialization of peasants' consumption and the developing process from self-sufficient economy toward commodity economy. It provides basis for the analysis and research of peasants' market demand and for the formulation of the plan of commodity supply.
Retail Price Index refers to the prices at which industrial, commercial, catering and other retail enterprises sell daily consumer goods and products for office use to urban and rural residents and institutions and social organizations. It reflects the general change in prices of retail commodities in a certain period of time. Formation of retail price index aims to keep abreast of price fluctuation of retail commodities and provide the reference basis for the central government in working out economic policies. Other derivative indexes can been formulated based on retail price index, providing the scientific basis for studying market circulation and the new accounting system of national economy.
Consumer Price Index reflects the relative change in prices of consumer goods and services in a certain period of time. Formation of consumer price index aims to study the impact of consumer price changes on the actual living cost of urban and rural residents and to provide scientific basis for central government and relevant departments in drawing up consumer policy, price policy, wage policy and monetary policy and in accounting the nation economy. It is also a key index reflecting the fluctuation of inflation.