Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

Since the 4th quarter of 2012, National Bureau of Statistics has carried out the integrate reforming on the survey of urban & rural residents which were once carried out separately, unified the names, classification and statistical standards of the indicators on urban & rural residents' income, and built up the concordant survey for urban & rural residents. Since 2014, Guangxi has formally released the data on the integration survey of urban and rural residents' income, expenses and livelihood after this reforming.

Household  refers to a group of people living in the same residence, sharing the living expenses or incomes together. If the group of people living in the same residence, but not sharing the living expenses or incomes together, then each people in this group is count as one household. The live-in caregiver or live-in journeyman is count as one simply household.

Permanent Resident   refers to the personnel living at home permanently or more than a half survey period in a household, and the students provided by this household. The permanent residents are the objects of the household income and expenses survey.

Disposable Income of Household   refers to the summary of final consumption and expenses available for household, namely the income can be arranged freely by household, which includes the incomes in cash and in kind. According to the resource, the disposable income includes 4 parts: income of wage and subsidy, net income from management, property net income and transfer net income. 

Income of  Wage & Subsidy  refers to the total labor reward and various welfares earned by employment in various ways, including the total labor reward and welfares earned by being employed by institutions or individuals, working freelance, working part-time jobs and odd jobs.

Net Income from Management  refers to the net income earned by household or member of household with working management, and it is the net income gained after deducting the operating costs, productive depreciation of fixed assets and net amount of productive taxes(deducting productive subsidy from productive taxes)from the total operating income. Its calculating formulation is:

Net Income from Management= Total Operating Income - Operating Costs-Productive Depreciation of Fixed Assets - Net Amount of Productive Taxes(Productive Taxes - Productive Subsidy)

Property Net Income   refers to the net income after deducting the relevant costs from the return, which is gained through organizing the financial assets and natural assets owned by the household or member of household by other institutions, households or individuals. Its calculating formulation is:

Property Net Income = Property Income - Property Expenses

Transfer Net Income   refers to the various usually transferring of incomes from nation, units, and social groups to household and between households. It includes the pension or retirement pay from governments, non-administrative institutions and social groups to household, social relieves and subsidy, policy subsidy for livelihood, relief money, regularly donations, compensations and applies for medical fee, etc. It also includes the supporting income, regularly donations and compensations between households, and the income sent back or brought back by the non-permanent member of the household working out of the rural area(village committee)or overseas. Its calculating formulation is:

Transfer Net Income= Transfer Income - Transfer Expenses

Five Equal Divides of Residents’ Income  refers to equally divide the total survey households into 5 groups according to the capita income degrees, and rank them from low to high. The group whose income in the highest 20% is called high income households, and by analogy are the upper middle income households, middle income households, lower middle income households, and low income households.

Per Capita Consumption Expenditure for Livelihood of Household   refers to the total expenses meeting the households’ needs of daily livelihood consumption, including the consumption expenses in cash and in kind. According to the use, consumption expenses can be divided into 8 broad categories: food, alcohol & tobacco, clothing, residence, daily necessities & services, transportation & communication, education, cultural & recreation services, medical appliances & articles and other supplies & services.