Sources: National Population Censuses, 1% Population Sample Surveys of Shanghai, Shanghai Statistical Yearbooks, Statistical Communiques of Shanghai on National Economic and Social Development & Hong Kong in Figures.
Notes: (1) GDP is at current prices. (2) Population is usual residents. (3) Shanghai’s population with tertiary education is cumulated with the number of graduates of a given year when a census or by-census is not conducted. (4) Shanghai’s labour force is working age population. It is adjusted by the change in usual residents aged 18-59, which is further estimated by the change in registered residents aged the same, when a census or by-census is not conducted. (5) Shanghai’s unemployment rate is urban unemployment rate.