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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on....21..March 1979..

HK&G.D.

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by

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ON TUESDAY

20 MARCH 1979.

Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what were the reasons for deleting information about paíd employment for those aged under 14 Years from the infor- mation published in the Hong Kong by-census of 1976.

Mi Evan tuand

This information was omitted as an indirect result of the

Hong Kong Government's decision to adopt in the 1976 by-census the

normal international practice of defining the economically active

population to exclude children under 14.

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