Thursday, December 6, 1973
EMPLOYMENT SURVEY OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
The Census and Statistics Department is conducting a comprehensive
postal survey on employment and job vacancies in the local manufacturing
industry.
Some 30,000 establishments have been sent printed enquiry cards
which should be fully completed and returned in the pre-paid envelopes
provided by Sunday, December 9.
Information sought by the department includes the number of employees,
classified by sex, and the number of vacancies as at December 4,
The survey is an extension of previous quarterly employment surveys
on industrial establishments registered with the Labour Department, and
covers all known manufacturing establishments.
A comprehensive register of them has been compiled by matching
and combining factory records of the Labour Department with field reticulation
records of the Census and Statistics Department.
Commenting on the survey, the Commissioner for Census and Statistics,
Mr. D.S. Whitelegge, said: "The manufacturing industry is the largest
employer of Hong Kong's work force and in view of its importance a full
coverage of employment in this sector is essential."
He appealed to all recipients of the enquiry cards to co-operate by
filling them in correctly and returning them promptly to his department.
"Manufacturers may rest assured that information provided will be
treated in strict confidence and only statistical summaries will be released,"
he said.
The cards would be destroyed, he added, after the relevant information
had been extracted and summarised.
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