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SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1988
PERSONS FOR APRIL-JUNE THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED
THE THREE MONTHS ENDING 1988 WAS 18,900, COMPARED WITH 25,200 FOR MARCH 1988 AND 29,500 FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JUNE 1987.
OF
THE THAN MATERIAL, FULL-TIME WORK) WERE EITHER SEEKING OR
CONSISTENT WITH THE CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO), PERSONS WHO WORKED LESS 35 HOURS A WEEK DUE TO ECONOMIC REASONS (SUCH AS SLACK WORK, SHORTAGE, MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN AND INABILITY TO FIND WERE REGARDED AS UNDEREMPLOYED ONLY IF THEY AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.
FOR CENSUS AND COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER
JOB SEEKERS STATISTICS SAID THAT BECAUSE THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME
MONTH TO (FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM
ADJUSTED TO TAKE MONTH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY
THE ACCOUNT OF THE VARIATIONS IN
NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME JOB SEEKERS SHOULD BE USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.
OF PROVISIONAL
COVERING THE WITHIN TWO WEEKS
THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM
UNEMPLOYMENT COUNTS,
AND
RATES THE
UNDEREMPLOYMENT LATEST THREE MONTHS PERIOD COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE AFTER THE SURVEY.
THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.
TREND IN THE
UNEMPLOYMENT
AND THE PROVISIONAL
RATE FOR UNDEREMPLOYMENT
THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED MAY-JULY 1988 WAS 1.7 PER CENT RATE WAS 0.6 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
OF
SOME
14.000 TO REPRESENT
SAMPLE QUARTERLY
SCIENTIFICALLY SELECTED HOUSEHOLDS OR 49,000 PERSONS, THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.
INTERVIEWING
INDIVIDUAL
BURVEY BY ABOVE IN THE
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE
MEMBER AGED 15 AND FACH HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.
MEASURING UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.
GIVEN IN
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS
WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIMES A YEAR.
JUNE 1988 SHOULD GPO BUILDING,
THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AROUND SEPTEMBER 20 AT $10 PER COPY.
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