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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1990
THE
FEBRUARY THREE
1989 THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS IN DECEMBER
WITH COMPARED
37,000 IN 40,800, 1990 WAS ESTIMATED AT
IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING MONTAS ENDING NOVEMBER 1989 AND 33,600 FEBRUARY 1989.
—
FEBRUARY 1990 WAS THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE FOR DECEMBER 1989
MONTHS ENDING 0.6 PER CENT, COMPARED WITH 0.8 PER CENT FOR THE THREE NOVEMBER 1989. IT WAS THE SAME AS THAT FOR THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD YEAR EARLIER.
THE DECREASE OF 0.2 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THREE-MONTH PERIOD IS STATISTICALLY NOT SIGNIFICANT.
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THE ESTIMATED
NUMBER OF
A
THE PRECEDING
UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS
DECEMBER IN 22,000 IN THE THREE IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING
1989 FEBRUARY 1990 WAS 17,500, COMPARED WITH MONTHS ENDING NOVEMBER 1989 AND 17,200 FEBRUARY 1989.
WITH CONSISTENT
THE CURRENT
RECOMMENDATIONS
OF
THE THAN
MATERIAL FULL-TIME WORK) WERE KITHER SEEKING OR
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 ADJUSTED
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
THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME ACCOUNT OF THE VARIATIONS IN SHOULD BE USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.*
SYSTEM OF PROVISIONAL
RATES
THE COVERING AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST
THE COMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A COUNTS,
AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT
UNDEREMPLOYMENT LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.
THE
JANUARY
PROVISIONAL MARCH 1990
SEASONALLY
1.6 WAS
ADJUSTED PER CENT
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AND THE
FOR
PROVISIONAL
UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.7 PER CENT.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
WERE OBTAINED CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS
QUARTERLY SELECTED
THE SURVEY
SAMPLE
FOR DECEMBER 1989 OF SOME 12,000 ΤΟ SCIENTIFICALLY
1990 FEBRUARY HOUSEHOLDS OR 44,000 REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED
COVERED A
PERSONS,
CIVILIAN
NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG,
/PERSONAL AND