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Reply by the Secretary for Education & Manpower to a Question by the Hon NGAI Shiu kit, OBE, JP in the Legislative Council on 25 May 1988
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8. MR. NGAI asked (in Cantonese):
Will the Government inform this Council the latest statistics of handicapped people employed in the industrial sector and the publicity programmes undertaken at the moment to encourage more manufacturers in light industries to employ handicapped people in the production process?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:
Answer
Sir,
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Disability statistics
are much more difficult
and complicated than may appear at first sight and no
country has yet found a way to maintain accurate figures of
the numbers of disabled people. This means we also have
difficulty in maintaining accurate figures of the number of
them in employment and in particular types of employment.
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We maintain a Central Registry of the Disabled.
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However its accuracy depends on voluntary registration and
we know from operational experience that it is not
complete. For planning purposes, we therefore have to
supplement the figures in our Central Registry with
estimates based on the advice of local experts and studies
conducted in Hong Kong and elsewhere. We take a great deal
of trouble over these estimates and have gradually improved
them over the years; but they still need to be treated with
great caution.
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