دله
0063D
PAYS A45
HKA 341/5
I
Emigration/Brain Drain
Task Force Report No. 1
Summary of Findings
(a) The number of immigrant visas to be issued to Hong
Kong people in 1988 will be about 49,000.
(b)
Actual physical departures of Hong Kong people for
emigration purposes in 1988 will also be about
49,000, but the similarity with (a) is a
coincidence. A "guesstimate" of the net outflow
figure for 1988 is 46,000.
That
(c) In 1987, 9593 professional, administrative and
managerial workers obtained visas to emigrate.
figure represented 3.5% of the entire stock of such
people in the community. Persons in that category,
who are 10.4% of the working population, took 42% of
the visas issued to working applicants.
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(d) Persons with matriculation level education or above,
who make up 7.8% of the population, in 1987 secured
32.6% of the visas issued. The figures for degree
holders were 2.9% and 16.9% respectively.