5 Employment and Wages Brief Introduction      ¢ñ£®The data in this chapter show the basic conditions of labor employment and wages of Guangdong Province, mainly including the number of all employed persons, number of fully employed staff and workers in units in urban areas, number of the persons employed in urban private enterprises and self-employed persons in industry and commerce, total wages and average wage of fully employed staff and workers and registered urban unemployment rate, etc. ª¥      ¢ò£®The data in this chapter are prepared and provided by the Division of Population and Employment Statistics of Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Statistics.ª¥      ¢ó£®The data in this chapter are collected and tabulated mainly in accordance with the statistical survey scheme of the National Bureau of Statistics, part of which are processed and prepared from figures provided by Guangdong Provincial Department of Labor and Social Security, Guangdong Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce and some other related organs.ª¥      ¢ô£®The statistical coverage of urban employed persons, fully employed staff and workers, staff and workers and wages in this chapter only includes state-owned units, collective-owned units and other types of ownership in urban areas, but excludes private enterprises and self-employed individuals.      ¢õ. In annual labor reports since 1998, survey units are categorized by registration status. As a result, exclusively state-invested companies in state-owned joint ownership units and limited liability companies are no longer entered as state-owned units, and collective-owned joint ownership units and cooperative units are no longer entered as urban collective-owned units. These units excluded from the categories of state-owned joint ownership units and urban collective-owned units are now categorized as units of other types of ownership.