Monthly Labor Force Survey and Unemployment Rate Survey Related Issues in China

Organizer: Center for Labor Market Research, NADS, RUC

Time: 14:00-17:00, May 18th, 2018

Venue: 123 Meeting Room, Guoxue Building

Background: On April 17, 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics officially released the unemployment rate for urban surveys in China. This is a major event in the study and practice of the labor market in China. Surveying the unemployment rate as one of the four macroeconomic indicators that parallels the economic growth rate, the price index, and the balance of international payments has played an important role in monitoring macroeconomic operations and reflecting employment unemployment. Since April of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics has surveyed the unemployment rate as part of the main statistical information release plan, and has regularly published monthly surveys of the unemployment rate in the country and in 31 large cities and towns. The lecture invited the relevant staff of the National Bureau of Statistics to introduce the unemployment rate of China's labor force survey and investigation; discuss following issues such as investigation design, related questionnaires and indicators, international comparison, how the registered unemployment rate coexist, and the suggestions for further improvement of the survey unemployment rate.

Agenda

Moderator: SUN Wenkai, Research Fellow of NADS, RUC

14:00-15:30

Presenter: LI Zhilong, Deputy Director of National Bureau of Statistics and Leader of Employment Big Data Group

15:30-16:30 Roundtable Discussion

ZENG Yongquan, Professor of the School of Labor and Human Resources, RUC

WANG Meiyan, Research Fellow of Population and Labor Research Institute, CASS

WANG Weidong, Deputy Director of China Data and Investigation Center, RUC

ZHAO Zhong, Research Fellow of NADS, Professor of the School of Labor and Human Resources, RUC