经济活动人口 指在16周岁及以上，有劳动能力，参加或要求参加社会经济活动的人口。包括就业人员和失业人员。
就业人员 指在16周岁及以上，从事一定社会劳动并取得劳动报酬或经营收入的人员。这一指标反映了一定时期内全部劳动力资源的实际利用情况，是研究我国、我省基本国情国力的重要指标。
单位就业人员 指在各级国家机关、政党机关、社会团体及企业、事业单位中工作，取得工资或其他形式的劳动报酬的全部人员。包括在岗职工、再就业的离退休人员、民办教师以及在各单位中工作的外方人员和港澳台方人员、兼职人员、借用的外单位人员和第二职业者。不包括离开本单位仍保留劳动关系的职工。各单位的就业人员反映了各单位实际参加生产或工作的全部劳动力。
城镇私营和个体就业人员 城镇私营就业人员指在工商管理部门注册登记，其经营地址设在县城关镇(含县城关镇)以上的私营企业就业人员，包括私营企业投资者和雇工。城镇个体就业人员指在工商管理部门注册登记，并持有城镇户口或在城镇长期居住，经批准从事个体工商经营的就业人员，包括个体经营者和在个体工商户劳动的家庭帮工和雇工。
职工 指在国有、城镇集体、联营、股份制、外商和港、澳、台投资、其他单位及其附属机构工作，并由其支付工资的各类人员。不包括下列人员：(1)乡镇企业就业人员；(2)私营企业就业人员；(3)城镇个体劳动者；(4)离休、退休、退职人员；(5)再就业的离、退休人员；(6)民办教师；(7)在城镇单位中工作的外方及港、澳、台人员；(8)其他按有关规定不列入职工统计范围的人员。(1998年及以后的数据均为在岗职工数据，其他相关指标如职工工资总额，职工平均工资等指标也从1998年按此口径进行了相应调整)。
国有单位
指资产归国家所有的经济组织。包括按《中华人民共和国企业法人登记管理条例》规定登记注册的非公司制的经济组织，以及中央、地方各级国家机关、事业单位和社会团体。
集体单位 指生产资料归集体所有，并按《中华人民共和国企业法人登记管理条例》规定登记注册的经济组织。
其他单位 包括股份合作单位、联营单位、有限责任公司、股份有限公司、港澳台商投资单位以及外商投资单位等其他登记注册类型单位。
在岗职工 指在本单位工作并由单位支付工资的人员，以及有工作岗位，但由于学习、病伤产假等原因暂未工作，仍由单位支付工资的人员。
工资总额 指各单位在一定时期内直接支付给本单位全部职工的劳动报酬总额。工资总额的计算原则应以直接支付给职工的全部劳动报酬为根据。各单位支付给职工的劳动报酬以及其他根据有关规定支付的工资，不论是计入成本的还是不计入成本的，不论是按国家规定列入计征奖金税项目的，还是未列入计征奖金税项目的，不论是以货币形式支付的还是以实物形式支付的，均包括在工资总额内。
平均工资 指企业、事业、机关单位的职工在一定时期内平均每人所得的货币工资额。它表明一定时期职工工资收入的高低程度，是反映职工工资水平的主要指标。计算公式为:
平均工资指数 指报告期职工平均工资与基期职工平均工资的比率，是反映不同时期职工货币工资水平变动情况的相对数。计算公式为:
平均实际工资指数 职工平均实际工资指扣除物价变动因素后的职工平均工资。职工平均实际工资指数是反映实际工资变动情况的相对数，表明职工实际工资水平提高或降低的程度。计算公式为:
单位就业人员劳动报酬
指各单位在一定时期内直接支付给本单位全部就业人员的劳动报酬总额。包括职工工资总额和其他就业人员劳动报酬总额。
平均劳动报酬 指企业、事业、机关等单位的全部就业人员在一定时期内平均每人所得的货币工资额。
计算公式为：
按照公务员管理或参照公务员管理的人员不统计为专业技术人员。
城镇登记失业人员 指有非农业户口，在一定的劳动年龄内(16周岁至退休年龄)，有劳动能力，无业而要求就业，并在当地就业服务机构进行求职登记的人员。
城镇登记失业率
城镇登记失业人员与城镇单位就业人员(扣除使用的农村劳动力、聘用的离退休人员、港澳台及外方人员)、城镇单位中的不在岗职工、城镇私营业主、个体户主、城镇私营企业和个体就业人员、城镇登记失业人员之和的比。计算公式为：
Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical
Indicators
Economically Active Population refers to the population
aged 16 and over who are capable of working, are participating in or willing to
participate in economic activities, including employed persons and unemployed
persons.
Employed Persons refer to persons aged 16 and over who
are engaged in gainful employment and thus receive remuneration payment or earn
business income. This indicator reflects the actual utilization of total labour force during a certain period of time and is often
used for the research on China’s
and Qinghai’s
economic situation and national power.
Persons Employed in Various Units refer to all the persons working in
government agencies of various levels, political and party organizations,
social organizations, enterprises and institutions, and receiving wages or
other forms of payment. They include fully-employed staff and workers,
re-employed retirees, teachers in the 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 do not include
persons who have left their working units while keeping their labour 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 for which the business operation are situated at a county town
(i.e. a town where the county government is located), or at urban areas with
administrative hierarchy 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 labourers who work in individual households.
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
Hong Kong, Macao,
and Taiwan,
and other types of ownership and their affiliated units. They do not include 1)
persons employed in township enterprises, 2) persons employed in private
enterprises, 3) urban self-employed persons, 4) retirees, 5) re-employed
retirees, 6) teachers in the schools run by the local people, 7) foreigners and
persons from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who work in urban units, and 8) other
persons not to be included by relevant regulations. (Data since 1998 refer to
fully employed staff and workers. Other related statistics indicators, such as
total wage bill and average wage are adjusted since 1998 accordingly).
State-owned Units refer to economic units whose assets are
owned by the state, including non-corporation units registered according to Regulation
of the People’s Republic of China on the Registration of Enterprises and
Corporations, state organs, institutions and social organizations at the
central-level and local levels.
Collective-owned Units refer to economic units registered
according to Regulation of the People’s Republic of China on the
Registration of Enterprises and Corporations where the means of production
are collectively owned.
Units of Other Types of Ownership refer to units registered with other
types of ownership, including cooperative units, joint ownership units, limited
liability corporations, share holding corporations, units funded by
entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and foreign- funded units.
Employed Staff and Workers refer to persons who work in, and
receive wages from their working units, including persons who have their work
posts but are temporarily absent from work for reasons of study or on sick,
injury or maternal leave and still receive wages from their working units.
Total Wage Bill refers to the total remuneration payment
to staff and workers in various units during a certain period of time. The
calculation of total wage bill 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 wage bill regardless of sources,
reckoning the cost of production or not, category, listing as items of premium
taxation or not, and forms, paying in cash or in kind.
Average Wage 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 Indices refers to the ratio of average wage of
staff and workers at the reference period to that at the base period, which
reflects the change of wage of staff and workers at the different period. It is
calculated as follows:
Average Real Wage Indices average real wage of
staff and workers refers to the average wage of staff and workers after
removing the effects of the price changes and average real wage indices of
staff and workers refers to the change of real wage, which reflects the
relative increasing or decreasing level of real wage of staff and workers,
which is calculated as follows:
Earning refer to
total remuneration payment to all employees in various units in urban areas
(did not include urban private units and self-employed individuals) during a
certain period of time, including staff and workers and other employees (i.e.,
reemployed retirees or those who are from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan province or
other countries).
Average
Earning refer to average earning level in money terms per employee in
the enterprise, institution and government organ during a certain period of
time, it is calculated as follows:
Registered Unemployed Persons in Urban
Areas refer to the persons
with non-agricultural household registration at certain working ages (16 years
old to retirement age), who are capable of working, unemployed and willing to
work, and have been registered at the local employment service agencies to
apply for a job.
Registered Unemployment Rate in Urban
Areas refers to the ratio
of the number of the registered unemployed persons to the sum of the number of
persons employed in various units (minus the employed rural labour
force, re-employed retirees, and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan or foreign
employees), laid-off staff and workers in urban units, owners of private
enterprises in urban areas, owners of self-employed individuals in urban areas,
employees of private enterprises in urban areas, employee of self-employed
individuals in urban areas, and the registered unemployed persons in urban
areas. The formula is as follows:
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