The Characteristics of Unemployed Persons and Unemployment Rate of China in 2000

Abstract

This paper analyzes the characteristics of unemployed persons and unemployment rate with the data obtained from the sample surveys on the 2000 National Population Censuses. The sample fractions is around 1‰。It aims to have some ideas about the different characteristics, such as sex, age, kind of unemployment, education situations, urban and rural areas, and regions, etc. In the coming a few years, China is likely to experience the most serious unemployment pressures it has ever faced.