Statistics Classroom - Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service

How do we calculate occupancy rate?
What are the differences between “place of residence”, “issuing place of travel document” and “nationality” of a visitor?
How do we define “visitors”?
What is spending of visitors?
What are “Official Statistics”? How do they differ from surveys carried out by other organisations or groups?
Every year, the Statistics and Census Service conducts various statistical surveys. What are their objectives?
How do we define “Usual Population” and “Mobile Population” ?
How do we calculate “birth rate”, “death rate”, “rate of natural increase” and “divorce rate”?
How do we define “labour force”, “employed population” and “unemployed population”?
How do we define “underemployed population”?
How do we calculate “labour force participation rate”, “unemployment rate” and “underemployment rate”?
How do we define “arithmetic mean” and “median”?
Why do we use the “median” instead of the “arithmetic mean” in calculating employment earnings?
How do we define and calculate “singulate mean age at marriage”?
What is a “consumer price index”? How is the Consumer Price Index of Macao calculated?
What is the “basket” of goods and services? How are these goods and services selected?
Why may there be a difference between perceived inflation and the official inflation rate?
What are the differences between commercial exhibitions and cultural exhibitions?
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? How do we calculate GDP?
What is the Industrial Structure?
What is Gross National Income (GNI)?
How to compile GNI in real terms?
Why do we compile GNI?
What is the difference and similarity between implicit price deflator of GDP and Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
Why are GDP figures constantly revised?
What are seasonal changes?
Why is it necessary to carry out major revision of GDP?
Why is Chain Volume Measures adopted in the compilation of GDP?
What are the different types of external merchandise trade in Macao?
How is trade balance calculated?
What are the principles employed when calculating import and export values of goods?
What are the major types of external merchandise trade indices of Macao?
What are M1 and M2?
What is TEU? What is the difference between TEU and container handled?
What is Gini coefficient?
Methodology for Compiling Chain Volume Measures of Gross Domestic Product : (I) Methods for Calculating Real Growth of Gross Domestic Product
Methodology for Compiling Chain Volume Measures of Gross Domestic Product : (II) Overview of Constant Price Estimates
Methodology for Compiling Chain Volume Measures of Gross Domestic Product : (III) Overview of Chain Volume Measures
Methodology for Compiling Chain Volume Measures of Gross Domestic Product : (IV) Characteristics of and selection between constant price estimates and chain volume measures
Methodology for Compiling Chain Volume Measures of Gross Domestic Product : (V) Arithmetic interpretation of chain volume measures
Methodology for Compiling Chain Volume Measures of Gross Domestic Product : (VI) Real case example

Trade balance equals export value minus import value. A positive balance denotes a trade surplus, whereas a negative balance denotes a trade deficit.