Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

Total Resource of Labor Force　refers to the population aged 16 and over who are capable to work , are willing to participate in or participating in social labor.

Employees　refers to the persons who are engaged in social labor and receive remuneration payment or earn business income, including: (1) staff and workers at work; (2) re-employed retirees; (3) employers of private enterprises; (4) self-employed workers; (5) employers in private and individual economy; (6) employees in township; (7) employed persons in the rural areas; (8) other employed persons (including the servicemen).

Staff and Workers　refer to the persons who work in (and receive payment there from) enterprise and institutions of state ownership, collective ownership, joint ownership, share holding, foreign ownership, and ownership by entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and other types of ownership and their affiliated units, excluding: (1) employed persons in rural enterprises; (2) employed persons in private enterprises; (3) urban individual laborers;(4) retired persons, VCSR and RRSW; (5) re-employed retirees and VCSR; (6) teachers in the schools run by the local people; (7) other persons aren’t included in the statistic range of staff and workers according to related rules.

Registered Urban Unemployed Persons　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 age and over, while male below 50 and female below 45), capable to labor, unemployed but desirous to be employed 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 to the sum of the number of persons employed in various units and in private enterprises in urban areas, urban self-employed individuals and the registered urban unemployed persons. The formula is as follows:

Registered urban unemployment rate =

Total Wages of Staff and Workers　refer to the 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). Total wages of staff and workers includes the wage calculated by time, wage calculated by volume, bonus, subsidies and allowances, wage paid in special.

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. The formula for calculating Average Wage of Staff and Workers is as follows:

Average Real Wage of Staff and Workers　refers to the average wage, which has removed the factor of price change. The formula is as follows:

Total Number of Persons Participating in Urban Basic Pension Programs　refers to the persons participating in the urban basic pension programs and registering in the social insurance institutions with payment registration, including the persons who cannot pay regularly, have stopped paid but maintained the pension insurance relation; including laid-off workers who have participated basic pension insurance, entered re-employment service center and go on paying; excluding the persons registered but without payment registration.

Total Number of Retired, VCSR & RRSW Participating in Urban Basic Pension Programs　refers to number of the retired, VCSR & RRSW participating in urban basic pension programs in the report period and are paid pensions from the pension insurance funds.

Total Number of Persons Participating in Unemployment Insurance Programs　refers to the number of staff and workers in urban enterprises and institutions or other persons by local government in participating in unemployment insurance programs according to national laws, rules and relative policies in the report period.

Total Number of Persons Participating Urban Basic Health Insurance Programs　refers to the total number of staff, workers and retired participating urban basic health insurance programs in the report period.