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4
%
University/post secondary
0.3
Secondary
35.2
Primary
58.9
5.6
No schooling/kindergarten
Their level of skills or training is low :
Occupation
Doctors
Nurses/midwives/medical assistants
Teachers
Craftsmen/production workers
Farmers/fishermen
Students
Others
%
0.05
0.1
0.1
4.6
81.7
5.2
8.3
Legal Immigrants
The legal stream of immigrants is composed of rather different sorts of people. They come generally in complete family groups and very often have family connections in Hong Kong. With their skills and educational background, their absorption would not present so great a problem, were it not for their sheer numbers. In response to representations by the Hong Kong Government, the volume has been brought down by the Chinese authorities from a daily peak of 310 in December 1978
This still represents to an average of 150 a day in 1980.
an addition of about 55,000 people a year.
By way of comparsion, the level of educational
attainment and of skills and training, of legal immigrants is :
Educational level University/post secondary
Secondary
Primary
No schooling/kindergarten
%
4.7
33.9
39.4
22.0
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