Women in Macau Survey in 1991 from Macau's Statistic and Census Bureau, the labor participation rate of women was 44.35%, then in 1996, the rate reached to 45.32%.The income level of Macau employed women has increased in the 90's, and the income gap with men has also narrowed. However, the proportion of women in low income class is much higher than men, vice versa, the proportion of women in high income class is much smaller. In 1994, Women with an average monthly income of less than 1000 yuan accounted for 78.47 %, women with monthly income of 1,501 to 2,000 yuan accounted for
Moving average "S" to "Y" as shown above, though other techniques exist, such as setting "S" to an average of the first 4 or 5 observations. The importance of the "S" initialisations effect on the resultant moving average depends on "α"; smaller "α" values make the choice of "S" relatively more important than larger "α" values, since a higher "α" discounts older observations faster. Whatever is done for "S" it assumes something about values prior to the available data and is necessarily in error. In view of this, the early results should be regarded as unreliable until the iterations have had time