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Cooperatives in the enterprise survey includes: Cooperatives,
cooperative unions and people’s credit funds.

A cooperative is a collective, co-ownership economic organization,
having the legal person status, voluntarily established by at least seven
members who mutually cooperate in production, business and job creation
to meet the common needs of cooperative members, on the basis of self-
control, self-responsibility, equality and democracy in the management of
the cooperative.

A cooperative union is a collective, co-ownership economic
organization, having legal person status, voluntarily established by at least
four cooperatives that mutually support each other in production and
business activities, to meet common needs of member cooperatives, on the
basis of self-control, self-responsibility, equality and democracy in the
management of the cooperative union.

Employees in the cooperative is the total employees managed, used
and paid wage/salary by the cooperative excluding cooperative members.

An individual business establishment is a economic organization,
where a regular business operation in all economic sectors, except
agriculture, forestry and fishery takes place with definite address and at
least one full-time worker.

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