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Tuesday, July 31, 1973
SECOND MANPOWER SURVEY OF PRINTING INDUSTRY
A major survey of Hong Kong's printing industry will be carried
out between August 15 to September 11.
The survey
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the second of its kind will be conducted by the
Printing Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee,
with the assistance of the Labour Department and the Census and Statistics
Department.
Questionnaires and explanatory letters in both English and Chinese
were sent today to the 473 establishments selected by random stratified
sampling.
The information which employers are requested to supply includes:
the number of workers presently employed; the number of workers currently
under training; the number of existing vacancies; and a forecast of the number
of workers required by 1974.
Survey Interviewing Officers of the Census and Statistics Department
will visit each of the establishments concerned during the period of the
survey to help employers to complete the questionnaire.
The Secretary of the Committee, Mr. Au-Yeung Man-tak, emphasised
that the information collected would be handled in strict confidence and
would be published only in the form of statistical summaries without reference
to any individual establishment.
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