Preliminary analysis on China's employed population.

PIP: This paper makes a preliminary analysis of the employment status, economic structure, age-sex structure, educational, and scientific status of the employed, as well as the characteristics of China's national minorities. China is most abundant in manpower resources, with a working-age population accounting for 61.49% of the total population. The working age limit set by China is 16-60 for males and 16-55 for females, which amounts to 87.51% of the labor resources. It is of great importance to study the age-specific employment by sex; this can show different proportions in employment for different labor force ages. 6 conclusions are drawn; 1) China leads the world in its enormous scale and high proportion of employed population; 2) there are, on the one hand, job-awaiting people--77% of which are young people 15-19 years of age, and on the other hand, over-aged employed people; 3) the economic structure of the Chinese economy is predominantly agricultural; 4) the employed population has a young age structure; 5) both the female employment and the sex structure of the employed population show that great improvement has been made for the Chinese women in their political, economical, and family status, but there still exists a big disparity when compared with men; and 6) the educational level of the employed population is universally low, with an illiteracy rate as high as 28.26%. In order to improve the educational and scientific level of the employed population, various kinds of educational undertakings must be run well.^ieng