Main figures from 10% sampling tabulation on China's 1990 Population Census
China Population Today 8(6): 7-12
1991
PMID: 12317281 Document Number: 281324
Data are provided from the 10% sample of the 1990 China Population Census for each of 30 provinces. Tables are available for the age structure of the population as a proportion 0-14, 15-19, 60+, 65+, working age 3, and median age in years; the fertility status of women as a proportion of women of childbearing age (15-49 years) to the total population, general fertility rate 4, and proportion of births by parity to all births (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and higher); marital status as a proportion of the population 15 and over (unmarried, married, widowed, divorced); employment status as a proportion of the working and nonworking population to the population 15 years and over (working, nonworking students, housekeeping, awaiting school, awaiting job assignment, retired, disabled, other); migration (in-migration from other provinces, out-migration to other provinces, interprovincial migration, and net migration); and type of family household average number of household members, proportion of 1, 2, and 3-generation households). The population count shows 15-19 year olds as 63.71% of the total population. The provinces range from a high of 67.85% in Sichuan to a low of 58.23% in Hainan. The national median age is 25.25 years. 0-14 years olds are 27.7% and those 60 and older are 8.59% of the total population. 27.10% are women of childbearing age in 1989. The general fertility rate 4 is 79.54/1000 with a provincial range of 121.4/1000 for Tibet and 41.32/1000 for Shanghai. The proportion of 1st births to all births for a parity of 1 is 49.51%, 2 is 31.17%, and 3 or greater is 19.32%. At 1 parity the provincial high is 92% for Shanghai, 72.0% for Tianjin, and 71.74% for Beijing, and a low of 34.57% for Xinjiang. At 2 parity, the high is 35.63% for Heibei, 35.36% for Hubei, and 35% for Hunan, and a low of 7.34% for Shanghai. At 3 parity, the high is Tibet at 53.8% and 44.35% for Xinjiang and a low of .66% for Shanghai. Provinces with a 3 or higher parity and greater than 20% of births are Shanxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. The national unmarried rate is 25.13% married 68.15%, widowed 6.13%, and divorced .59%. The employment status of the working population is 79.9%. 20.91% are nonworking of which the largest % are the 8.46% in housekeeping. 3.97 is the average number of persons/household and 68.02% are 2-generation households. Beijing had the greatest in migration (6.13%) and interprovincial net migration (5.%).