Economically Active Population refers to the population aged 16 and over who are capable to work, are participating in or willing to participate in economic activities, including employed persons and unemployed persons.ª¤

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 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 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 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 who are registered as permanent residents in the urban areas engaged in non-agricultural activities, aged within the range of working age, 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 unemployed persons to the sum of the number of employed persons and the unemployed persons in urban areas. The formula is as follows:

Registered Urban Unemployment Rate = Number of Registered Urban Unemployed Persons/(Number of Urban Employed Persons + Number of Registered Urban Unemployed Persons) ¡Á100%

Staff and Workers refer to the persons who work in (and receive payment therefrom) enterprises 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 the retired persons invited to work in the units again, teachers in the schools run by the local people and foreigners and persons coming from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and working in the state-owned economic units.

Staff and Workers in State-owned Economic Units refer to the persons who work in the state-owned economic units or their attached units and are listed in their payrolls.ª¥

Staff and Workers of Collective Owned Units in Urban Areas refer to the persons who work¡¡in¡¡collective¡¡owned¡¡units in urban areas and their administration departments and receive payment therefrom.ª¥

Staff and Workers in Units of Other types of Ownership refer to those who work in (and receive payment¡¡therefrom ) enterprises¡¡and¡¡institutions¡¡of¡¡joint¡¡ownership,¡¡share¡¡holding, foreign ownership, and ownership by¡¡entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

Fully Employed Staff and Workers refer to persons who work in, and receive wages from their working units, as well as 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 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)£®

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£½Total Wage of Staff and Workers in Reference Period/Average Number of Staff and Workers in Reference Period

Average Real Wage of Staff and Workers refers to average wage of staff and workers after removing the effects of price changes, which is calculated as follows:

Average Real Wage of Staff and Workers £½Average Wage of Staff and Workers in Reference Period/Consumer Price Index of Urban Residents in Reference

Index of Average Wage of Staff and Worker refers to the ratio of average wage of staff and workers at the report time to that at the reference time. It reflects the relative changing degree of average wage in money terms at the various of time, which is calculated as following:

Index of Average Wage of Staff and Worker £½ Average Wage of Staff and Workers at the Report Time/Average Wage of Staff and Workers at the Reference Time

Index of Average Real Wage of Staff and Worker refers to the average wage which has removed the factor of price change. Index of average real wage of staff and worker reflects the relative changing degree of average real wage, and indicates the degree of the rising or declining degree of real wage of staff and worker, which is calculated as following:

Index of Average Real Wage of Staff and Worker £½ Index of Average Wage of Staff and Worker at the Report Time/Urban consumer prices index at the report time