| Employment | |||||||||||
| Item | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | ||||||
| Economically Active Population (10 000 persons) | 72087 | 72791 | 73992 | 74432 | |||||||
| Total Number of Employed Persons (10 000 persons) |
70637 | 71394 | 72085 | 73025 | 73740 | ||||||
| Primary Industry | 35177 | 35768 | 36043 | 36513 | 36870 | ||||||
| Secondary Industry | 16600 | 16421 | 16219 | 16284 | 15780 | ||||||
| Tertiary Industry | 18860 | 19205 | 19823 | 20228 | 21090 | ||||||
| Composition of Employed Persons (total=100) | |||||||||||
| Primary Industry | 49.8 | 50.1 | 50.0 | 50.0 | |||||||
| Secondary Industry | 23.5 | 23.0 | 22.5 | 22.3 | |||||||
| Tertiary Industry | 26.7 | 26.9 | 27.5 | 27.7 | |||||||
| Number of Employed Persons by Urban and Rural Areas (10 000 persons) | |||||||||||
| Urban Employed Persons | 21616 | 22412 | 23151 | 23940 | 24780 | ||||||
| State-owned Units | 9058 | 8572 | 8102 | 7640 | 7163 | ||||||
| Urban Collectively Owned Units | 1963 | 1712 | 1499 | 1291 | 1122 | ||||||
| Cooperative Units | 136 | 144 | 155 | 153 | |||||||
| Joint Ownership Units | 48 | 46 | 42 | 45 | |||||||
| Limited Liability Corporations | 484 | 603 | 687 | 841 | |||||||
| Share-holding Corporations Ltd. | 410 | 420 | 457 | 483 | |||||||
| Private Enterprises | 973 | 1053 | 1268 | 1527 | |||||||
| Units with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan | 294 | 306 | 310 | 326 | |||||||
| Foreign-funded Units | 293 | 306 | 332 | 345 | |||||||
| Self-employed Individuals | 2259 | 2414 | 2136 | 2131 | |||||||
| Rural Employed Persons | 49021 | 48982 | 48934 | 49085 | 48960 | ||||||
| Township and Village Enterprises | 12537 | 12704 | 12820 | 13086 | 13288 | ||||||
| Private Enterprises | 737 | 969 | 1139 | 1187 | |||||||
| Self-employed Individuals | 3855 | 3827 | 2934 | 2629 | |||||||
| Number of Staff and Workers (10 000 persons) | 12337 | 11773 | 11259 | 10792 | 10558 | ||||||
| State-owned Units | 8809 | 8336 | 7878 | 7409 | 6924 | ||||||
| Urban Collectively Owned Units | 1900 | 1652 | 1447 | 1241 | 1071 | ||||||
| Units of Other Types of Ownership | 1628 | 1785 | 1935 | 2142 | 2563 | ||||||
| Number of Female Employment | |||||||||||
| in Urban Units (10 000 persons) | - | 4613 | 4411 | 4226 | |||||||
| Number of Registered Unemployed Persons in Urban Areas (10 000 persons) | 571 | 575 | 595 | 681 | 770 | ||||||
| Registered Unemployment Rate in Urban Areas (%) | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 4.0 | ||||||
| Since 1990 data on economically active population, the total employed persons and the sub-total of | |||||||||||
| employed persons in urban and rural areas have been adjusted in accordance with the data obtained | |||||||||||
| from the 5th National Population Census. As a result, the sum of the data by region, by ownership or by | |||||||||||
| sector is not equal to the total. The same as in the following tables. | |||||||||||