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MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1990
SEPTEMBER
THE THREE MONTHS ENDING NOVEMBER
THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS FOR NOVEMBER 1989 WAS 22,000, COMPARED WITH 17,500 FOR
MONTHS THREE ENDING AUGUST 1989 AND 18,100 FOR THE 1988.
CONSISTENT
WITH THE
CURRENT
OF
THE THAN MATERIAL FULL-TIME WORK) WERE EITHER SEEKING OR
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 JOB-SEEKERS FROM MONTH TO ΤΟ TAKE JOB-SEEKERS
COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER STATISTICS SAID THAT BECAUSE THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME (FOR EXAMPLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES MONTH,
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
THE
OF NUMBER ACCOUNT OF THE VARIATIONS IN SHOULD BE USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.
FIRST-TIME
THE
BASED ON A SYSTEM OF PROVISIONAL
RATES COVERING UNDEREMPLOYMENT
AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS INDICATION OF THE LATEST
THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, COUNTS, THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.
THE
OCTOBER
-
1.3
ADJUSTED)
PER
RATE UNEMPLOYMENT CENT AND THE PROVISIONAL
FOR
SEASONALLY PROVISIONAL DECEMBER
1989 WAS
UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.8 PER CENT.
WERE OBTAINED THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
OF THIS SURVEY COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
SCIENTIFICALLY TO SOME 14,000 HOUSEHOLDS OR 52,000 PERSONS, SELECTED
POPULATION IN NON-INSTITUTIONAL CIVILIAN REPRESENT THE HONG KONG.
LAND-BASED
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE
15 AND ABOVE MEMBER AGED INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWING EACH HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED. IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE THE ILO.
SURVEY BY IN THE MEASURING
RECOMMENDED BY
GIVEN IN
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS
WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIMES A YEAR.
WILL
CENTRE, GROUND FLOOR, MARCH 20 AT 810 PER
THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 1989 BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AROUND COPY.
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