| Number of Self-employed Individuals at the Year-end by Region(2015) | ||||
| Region | Number of Households (household) |
Number of Engaged Persons (10 000 persons) |
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| Urban | Rural | |||
| Total | 4530415 | 958.7 | 423.5 | 535.2 |
| Jinan | 302050 | 67.9 | 43.9 | 24.0 |
| Qingdao | 636671 | 111.4 | 55.8 | 55.6 |
| Zibo | 206312 | 41.8 | 21.6 | 20.2 |
| Zaozhuang | 226633 | 53.7 | 26.4 | 27.3 |
| Dongying | 89505 | 20.0 | 11.2 | 8.8 |
| Yantai | 418739 | 75.8 | 37.9 | 37.9 |
| Weifang | 488214 | 97.2 | 18.8 | 78.4 |
| Jining | 347563 | 78.0 | 30.1 | 47.9 |
| Tai'an | 215842 | 48.2 | 24.3 | 23.9 |
| Weihai | 136146 | 26.9 | 14.9 | 12.0 |
| Rizhao | 120135 | 21.1 | 7.3 | 13.8 |
| Laiwu | 53906 | 12.4 | 4.0 | 8.4 |
| Linyi | 319585 | 79.9 | 42.2 | 37.7 |
| Dezhou | 227890 | 51.7 | 21.0 | 30.7 |
| Liaocheng | 236979 | 54.1 | 20.3 | 33.8 |
| Binzhou | 136948 | 30.6 | 12.3 | 18.3 |
| Heze | 367297 | 87.7 | 31.4 | 56.3 |