Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
Total population refers to the total number of
people alive at a certain point of time within a given area.
The annual statistics on
total population is taken at
Urban Population and Rural Population Urban population refer to all people
residing in cities and towns, while rural population refer to population other
than urban population.
Statistics on urban and
rural population over the years are compiled in line with the regulations of
statistical classification on urban and rural population stipulated by the
government, which were in effect at different times.
Figures on urban/rural
population for the years between the 3 censuses are adjusted in accordance with
the 1990 and 2000 population census data.
Resident
Population According to survey
of population, it includes the following main items: 1) population with
residence registered in this township or town (street) and reside in this area;
2) population with residence registered in other area, but having actually
resided in this township or town (street) over half a year; 3) population with
residence registered in other area and having resided in this townships or
towns (streets) under half a year, but leaving the area where they registered
residence over half a year; 4) population reside in this township or town
(street), but haven’t registered residence temporarily.
Birth Rate (or Crude Birth Rate)
refers to the ratio of
the number of births to the average population during a certain period of time
(usually a year), which is often expressed in ‰. Birth rate in the chapter
refers to annual birth rate. The following formula is used:
Birth Rate = Number of Births / Average Number of Population × 1000‰
Number of Births refers to
live births, i.e. the births when babies had showed any vital phenomena
regardless of the length of pregnancy.
Annual Average Number of
Population is the average of the number of population at the beginning of the
year and that at the end of the year. Sometimes it is substituted for with the
mid-year population.
Death Rate (or Crude Death Rate) refers to the ratio of the
number of deaths to the average population (or mid-year population) during a
certain period of time (usually a year), which is often expressed in ‰. Death
rate in the chapter refers to annual death rate. The following formula is used:
Death Rate = Number of Deaths / Annual Average Number of Population × 1000‰
Natural Growth Rate of Population refers to the ratio of natural
increase in population (number of births minus number of deaths) in a certain
period of time (usually a year) to average population (or mid-year population)
of the same period, which is often expressed in ‰. The following formulas are
applied:
Natural Growth of Population = Number of Births - Number of Deaths / Average
number of Population × 1000‰
Natural Growth Rate of Population = Birth Rate - Death Rate
Employees refer
to the persons aged 16 and over who are engaged in social working and receive
remuneration payment or earn business income. This indicator reflects the
actual utilization of total labor force during a certain period of time and is
often used for the research on
Persons Employed
in Various Units refer to all
the persons working in government agencies of various levels, political and
party organizations, social organizations, and enterprises and institutions and
receiving payment, including staff and workers, reemployed retirees, teachers
in schools run by the local people, foreigners, and Chinese compatriots from
Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan working in various units, part-time employees,
employees of other units working temporarily at current posts, and employees
holding the second job, but exclude staff and workers who have left their
working units while keeping their
labor contract (employment relation) unchanged. This indicator reflects the
total number of laborers actually engaged in production or other operations in
various units.
Persons Employed in Private
Enterprises and Self-Employed Individuals in Urban Areas: Persons employed in private enterprises
refer to the persons employed in the private enterprises which have been
registered at the departments of industrial and commercial administration and
are situated at a county town (i.e. a town where the county government is
located) for business operation or at urban areas with the level higher than a
county town. The self-employed individuals 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 laborers who work in the individual households engaged in
industrial or commercial business.
Registered Urban Unemployed
Persons refer to the persons
with non-agricultural household registration at certain working ages (16 years to
the ages can retire), who are capable of work, unemployed and willing to work,
and have been registered at the local employment service agencies to apply for
a job.
Registered Urban
Unemployment Rate refers to the ratio of the number
of the registered unemployed persons at the end of reference period to the sum
of total employment and the number of the registered unemployed persons at the
end of reference period. The formula is as follows:
Registered urban
unemployment rate = number of registered urban unemployed persons at the end of
reference period / (total employment+ number of registered urban unemployed
persons at the end of reference period) × 100%
Staff and Workers refer to persons working in, and
receive payment from units of state ownership, collective ownership, joint
ownership, share holding ownership, foreign ownership, and ownership by
entrepreneurs from
State-owned Units refer to economic units whose
assets are owned by the state. Included are non-corporation units registered
according to Regulation of the People’s Republic of
Collective Units refer to economic units registered
according to Regulation of the People’s Republic of
Units of Other Types of
Ownership refer to units
registered with other types of ownership, including cooperative units, joint
ownership units, limited companies, share holding corporations, units invested
by entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and foreign-invested units.
Total Wages of
Staff and Workers
refer to total remuneration payment to staff and workers in various
units during a certain period of time. The calculation of total wages is based
on the total remuneration payment to the staff and workers. Therefore, all the
wages and salaries and other payments to staff and workers are included in the
total wages regardless of their sources, category, and forms (in kind or cash).
Average Wage of Staff and Workers refers to the average wage in
money terms per person during a certain period of time for staff and workers in
enterprises, institutions, and government agencies, which reflects the general
level of wage income during a certain period of time and is calculated as
follows:
Average
Wage of Staff and Workers=Total Wages of Staff and Workers in Reference
Period/Average Number of Staff and Workers in Reference Period
Professional
Personnel refers to the
persons who are engaged in special professional work or in professional
management who got the titles of professional post before 1983 or who were
appointed to professional positions since 1984.
Professional personnel
specifically refers to engineering professionals, agricultural professionals,
scientific research professionals (natural science researchers, social science
researchers and laboratory technicians), health professionals, teaching
professionals (including institutions of higher education, specialized
secondary schools, technical schools, regular secondary schools, and primary
schools), civil aviation professionals, nautical professionals, economic
professionals, accounting professionals, statistical professionals,
interpretation professionals, library professionals, archives professionals,
professionals of culture, arts and cultural relics, newsman and publishing
professionals, lawyers, notary professionals, radio and television announcers,
industrial arts professionals, sports professionals, artists and political
professionals.
Professional management
personnel specifically refers to the managers of enterprises and institutions,
the personnel engaged in management of production, techniques, economic and
political aspects in functional departments under enterprise and institution,
production workshops and accessorial workshops (or accessorial production
units) under enterprises.
Professional personnel
excluded the personnel managed by or according to the system of civil servants.