Table 1
Urban Employment Reconciliation

 

 

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

Urban formal employment (million)

 

 

 

 

 

State sector

112.44

110.44

90.58

85.72

81.02

Urban Collective

30.16

28.83

19.63

17.12

14.99

Cooperatives

n.a.

n.a.

1.36

1.44

1.55

Joint ownership

0.49

0.43

0.48

0.46

0.42

Limited liability corp.

n.a.

n.a.

4.84

6.03

6.87

Shareholding

3.63

4.68

4.1

4.2

4.57

Private firms

6.2

7.5

9.73

10.53

12.68

Funded from HK, Macao, Taiwan

2.65

2.81

2.94

3.06

3.1

Foreign funding

2.75

3

2.93

3.06

3.32

Self-employed individuals

17.09

19.19

22.59

24.14

21.36

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sum of components (A)

175.41

176.88

159.18

155.76

149.88

 

 

 

 

 

 

Urban employed persons (B)

198.15

202.07

206.78

210.14

212.74

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unexplained residual (=B-A)

 

 

 

 

 

     Million workers

22.74

25.19

47.60

54.38

62.86

     % of urban employed

11.5

12.5

23.0

25.9

29.5

 

Source: Yearbook 2001, p. 107.

 

Note: The residual arises because total urban employment is adjusted using “data obtained from the sample surveys

  on population changes” (ibid).

 

 

 


Table 2

Population and Labor Force

 

POPULATION FIGURES

 

LABOR FORCE

 

Year-end

Annual

 

 

Aggregate Data

Annual

Annual

Percent Annual

Year

Population

Increment

RNI

 

Economic

Employed

Increment

Increment

Increase

 

million

million

percent

 

Active

 

million

million

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Series A]

[Series B]

[Series A]

[Series B]

[Series A]

[Series B]

1980

987.0

 

1.50

 

 

423.6

 

13.4

 

3.3

1985

1058.5

 

 

 

 

498.7

 

16.7

 

3.9

1990

1143.3

 

1.58

 

 

639.1

 

85.8*

 

15.5

1991

1158.2

14.9

1.40

 

 

648.0

 

8.9

 

1.4

1992

1171.7

13.5

1.22

 

 

655.5

 

7.5

 

1.2

1993

1185.2

13.5

1.22

 

609.6

663.7

 

8.2

 

1.3

1994

1198.5

13.3

1.20

 

687.7*

672.0

78.1*

8.3

12.8

1.3

1995

1211.2

12.7

1.11

 

696.6

679.5

8.9

7.5

1.3

1.1

1996

1223.9

12.7

1.11

 

696.6*

688.5

0.0*

9.0

0.0

1.3

1997

1236.3

12.4

1.05

 

705.8

696.0

9.2

7.5

1.3

1.1

1998

1248.1

11.8

1.00

 

714.1

699.6

8.3

3.6

1.2

0.5

1999

1259.1

11.0

0.92

 

719.8

705.9

5.7

6.3

0.8

0.9

2000

1265.8

6.7

0.53

 

 

711.5

 

5.6

 

0.8

 

 

*indicates obvious breaks in data series presumably caused by changes in concept or method.

 

Source:  Population and RNI from Yearbook 2001, p. 91; RNI for 2000 calculated from population figures.

 

Economically active: Labor 2000, p. 3; Labor 1998, p. 3; Labor 1996, p. 3; 1994, p. 7.

 

Employed: Labor 2000, p. 8; figure for 2000 from Yearbook 2001, p. 107

 

 


Table 3

Basic Data on Population and Employment, 1980-2000

(Million persons and percent)

 

Category

1980

1990

2000

Average growth

1980/90       1990/00

1. Population

987.0

1143.3

1265.8

1.5

1.0

2. Increase (%)

1.19

1.44

0.53

 

 

3. Labor force

423.6

639.1

711.5

3.0*

1.1

4. Urban formal

     employees

104.4

140.6

146.6

3.0

0.4

5. Labor force composition

 

 

 

 

 

  5A. Primary

291.2

384.3

355.8

2.8

-0.8

  5B. Secondary

77.1

136.5

160.1

5.9

1.6

  5C. Tertiary

55.3

118.3

195.7

7.9

5.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares (%)

 

 

 

 

 

Participation rate

42.9

55.9

56.2

 

 

Female workers#

35.3

37.6

39.2

 

 

Primary

68.7

60.1

50.0

 

 

Secondary

18.2

21.4

22.5

 

 

Tertiary

13.1

18.5

27.5

 

 

 

*based on growth during 1980/89.  The series rises by an improbable figure of 87 million workers during 1989/90, presumably reflecting adjustments based on the 1990 population census (see Labor 2000, p. 9).

 

# proportion of female workers in units under state, urban collective, or “other” ownership.  These figures exclude domestic private enterprises and self-employed individuals.

 

Sources: Except as noted, data for 1980 and 1990 from Rawski 1999.  Data for 2000 are from Yearbook 2001, pp. 91, 107, from Table 1 (RNI for 2000; urban formal employment).  Data on female employment are from Labor 2000, p. 15 and Labor 1995, p. 26.


Table 4

Trends in Formal Employment, 1980-2000

(million workers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Percent Annual Increase

Year

State

Collective

Other

Urban

Urban

TVE

Rural

Total

Urban

National

 

 

 

 

Private

Total

 

Private

 

Total

Total

1980

80.2

24.3

0.0

0.8

105.3

30.0

5.0*

140.3

 

 

1985

89.9

33.2

0.4

4.5

128.0

69.8

10.0*

207.8

 

 

1990

103.5

35.5

1.6

6.7

147.3

92.7

16.0

256.0

 

 

1991

106.6

36.3

2.2

7.6

152.7