5-1 Employment
Item | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006
Economically Active Population (10 000 persons) | 75360 | 76075 | 76823 | 77877 | 78244
Total Number of Employed Persons (10 000 persons) | 73740 | 74432 | 75200 | 75825 | 76400
Primary Industry | 36870 | 36546 | 35269 | 33970 | 32561
Secondary Industry | 15780 | 16077 | 16920 | 18084 | 19225
Tertiary Industry | 21090 | 21809 | 23011 | 23771 | 24614
Composition of Employed Persons (total=100) |  |  |  |  |
Primary Industry | 50.0 | 49.1 | 46.9 | 44.8 | 42.6
Secondary Industry | 21.4 | 21.6 | 22.5 | 23.8 | 25.2
Tertiary Industry | 28.6 | 29.3 | 30.6 | 31.4 | 32.2
Number of Employed Persons by Urban and |  |  |  |  |
Rural Areas (10 000 persons) |  |  |  |  |
Urban Employed Persons | 24780 | 25639 | 26476 | 27331 | 28310
State-owned Units | 7163 | 6876 | 6709.9251 | 6488 | 6430
Urban Collective-owned Units | 1122 | 1000 | 897.1599 | 810 | 764
Cooperative Units | 161 | 173 | 192.4 | 188 | 178
Joint Ownership Units | 45 | 44 | 44.1 | 45 | 45
Limited Liability Corporations | 1083 | 1261 | 1436 | 1750 | 1920
Share-holding Corporations Ltd. | 538 | 592 | 624.9 | 699 | 741
Private Enterprises | 1999 | 2545 | 2993.729 | 3458 | 3954
Units with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan | 367 | 409 | 469.8 | 557 | 611
Foreign Funded Units | 391 | 454 | 563 | 688 | 796
Self-employed Individuals | 2269 | 2377 | 2521.2246 | 2778 | 3012
Rural Employed Persons | 48960 | 48793 | 48724 | 48494 | 48090
Township and Village Enterprises | 13288 | 13573 | 13866 | 14272 | 14680
Private Enterprises | 1411 | 1754 | 2023.5223 | 2366 | 2632
Self-employed Individuals | 2474 | 2260 | 2065.8835 | 2123 | 2147
Number of Staff and Workers (10 000 persons) | 10558 | 10492 | 10576 | 10850 | 11161
State-owned Units | 6924 | 6621 | 6438 | 6232 | 6170
Urban Collective-owned Units | 1071 | 951 | 851 | 769 | 726
Units of Other Types of Ownership | 2563 | 2920 | 3287 | 3849 | 4264
Number of Registered Unemployed Persons | 770 | 800 | 827 | 839 | 847
in Urban Areas (10 000 persons) |  |  |  |  |
Registered Unemployment Rate in Urban Areas (%) | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.1
a) From 1990 to 2000, the total number of employed persons, the sub-total of urban and rural employed persons have been adjusted in accordance with
the data obtained from the 5th National Population Census. Since 2001, these data are derived from the annual sample survey on population changes.
As a result, the sum of the data by region, by ownership and by sector is not equal to the total. The same applies to the following tables.