(e)
2
Total output of new graduates and sub-degree
qualification holders exceeds losses to emigration
by a wide margin, though further study is needed
before this difference can be authoritatively
quantified.
Background
2.
On 4 May 1988, the Secretary for Administrative
Services and Information announced in the Legislative
Council, in a speech in reply to the Budget Debate, the
formation of a task force in the Information Division of
ASIB to consider how to improve the Government's
knowledge of emigration matters. An inter-departmental
meeting had been held the previous week, on 27 April. In
subsequent weeks, PAS (I) and AS(I) made a number of
fact-finding visits to other Branches and Departments to
make an inventory of the different sources of information
which shed some light on emigration/brain drain matters.
A Senior Statistician from Census and Statistics
Department joined the Division on 6 June on a part-time
basis.
Information about Emigration
3.
The emigration process begins with the
Immigration policies of the main settlement countries.