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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1986
THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM OF MANUAL EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES FOR THE LATEST MONTH, PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES COVERING THE LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST TREND IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION. THE PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED) FOR MARCH - MAY 1986 WAS 2.9 PER CENT AND THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 2.4 PER CENT. (THE UNADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR FEBRUARY - APRIL 1986 WAS 3.2 PER CENT).
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE OBTAINED FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT. THIS SURVEY COVERS A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 15 000 HOUSEHOLDS OR 53 000 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG. PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY BY INTERVIEWING EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN THE HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED. IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN MEASURING UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN IN THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR TIMES A YEAR. THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING MARCH 1986 SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AROUND JUNE 20.
SLIGHT DROP IN TRANSPORT COMPLAINTS
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THERE WAS A SLIGHT DROP IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT TRANSPORT SERVICES, ACCORDING TO THE QUARTERLY REPORT NO. 2 OF 1985-86 RELEASED BY THE TRANSPORT COMPLAINTS UNIT (TCU) TODAY (SATURDAY).
THE REPORT, WHICH COVERS THE PERIOD FROM JANUARY TO MARCH 1986, RECORDED A TOTAL OF 1 423 COMPLAINTS, 59 CASES FEWER THAN THE 1 482 COMPLAINTS RECEIVED IN THE PREVIOUS QUARTER. HOWEVER, COMPARED WITH THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR, THE FIGURE REPRESENTED A 50 PER CENT INCREASE.
/THE EXECUTIVE