Effect of Industrial Robots on Employment in China: An Industry Level Analysis

Table 1

List of all industries based on the China National Standard (GB/T 4754-2017).

Included in robotics data	Label	Code description
√	Agriculture	Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery
√	Mining	Mining
√	Manufacturing	Manufacturing
√	Utilities	Production and supply of electricity, heat, gas and water
√	Construction	Construction
√	Transport	Transport, storage and post
√	IT	Information transmission, software and information technology
√	Food and beverages	Hotels and catering services
√	Science R&T	Scientific research and technical services
√	Chemical	Management of water conservancy, environment
√	Household appliances	Services to households, repair and other services
√	Education	Education
√	Pharmaceuticals	Health and social service

Notes. Table 1 lists 13 industries for which we collected robot data from IFR. We compared these with the industries in the Chinese national standard (GB/T 4754-2017) as shown in column 3 of Table 1. The first column of Table 1 represents the industries with robot data. The second column is the industry label, such as information technology (IT) and scientific research and technical (R&T) services.