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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1989
THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1988 WAS 1.3 PER CENT UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.7 PER CENT.
UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE
RATE FOR PROVISIONAL
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
QUARTERLY SAMPLE SOME 14,000 HOUSEHOLDS OR 50,000 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION HONG KONG,
OF
TO
IN
BY
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY 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 15 GIVEN IN THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR TIMES A YEAR.
THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 1988 SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AROUND MARCH 20 AT $10 PER COPY.
COMMUNICATION, CO-OPERATION AMONG RESIDENTS IMPORTANT
RESIDENTS OF TAI PO SHOULD KEEP IN TOUCH AND CO-OPERATE WITH NEWLY ARRIVED RESIDENTS TO MAKE THE DISTRICT A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR MICHAEL SUEN, SAID TONIGHT (SATURDAY).
MR SUBN WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SECOND PO FESTIVAL, HELD AT THE KWONG FUK BRIDGE.
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HE NOTED THAT SINCE THE POPULATION OF THE DISTRICT WOULD REACH 300,000 BY THE MID-1990'S, AND MOST OF THE RESIDENTS WOULD BE PEOPLE WHO HAD MOVED IN FROM OUTSIDE TAI PO, PERSONAL LINKS AND CO-OPERATION WERE SIGNIFICANT.
REFERRING TO THE FESTIVAL, HE SAID THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND CLOSE CO-OPERATION OF LOCAL BODIES AND INDIVIDUALS WERE VITAL IN ORGANISING SUCH A LARGE-SCALE EVENT.
/MR SUEN
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