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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1988
THE ESTIMATED
NUMBER OF
WITH
UNDEREMPLOYED
22,600
FOR PERSONS
JUNE FOR THE THREE MONTHS
AUGUST 1988 WAS 16,500 COMPARED
ENDING MAY 1988 AND 27,400 FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING AUGUST 1987.
CONSISTENT
WITH
CURRENT
THE THAN MATERIAL FULL-TIME WORK) OR
SEEKING
OF THE
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.
WERE EITHER
FOR CENSUS AND JOB-SEEKERS MONTH TO MONTH,
TAKE ACCOUNT
THE COMMISSIONER COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, STATISTICS SAID THAT BECAUSE THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME (E.G. PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED TO OF THE VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.
JOB-SEEKERS
SHOULD
BE
OF PROVISIONAL
RATES COVERING THE WITHIN TWO WEEKS
THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM
UNDEREMPLOYMENT THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND COUNTS, 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
JULY
UNDEREMPLOYMENT
THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR SEPTEMBER 1988 WAS 1.6 PER CENT AND THE PROVISIONAL RATE WAS 0.6 PER CENT.
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THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
CONDUCTED FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
WERE OBTAINED BY THE CENSUS
THIS SURVEY COVERS A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 14,000 HOUSEHOLDS TO REPRESENT THE SCIENTIFICALLY SELECTED 49,000 PERSONS, LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.
OR
MEMBER AGED
ABOVE
SURVEY BY IN THE
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE
15 AND INTERVIEWING EACH INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.
MEASURING UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.
GIVEN
IN PUBLISHED FOUR
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS
WHICH IS THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIMES A YEAR.
THE QUARTER ENDING
PUBLICATIONS
1988 SEPTEMBER
CENTRE AROUND
THE NEXT REPORT COVERING SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT DECEMBER 20, 1988 AT $10 PER COPY.
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