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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1991
THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE AND UNDER EMPLOYMENT SITUATION.
THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
NOVEMBER
1990
JANUARY UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.6%.
1991
WAS
LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT
1.3%
AND
UNEMPLOYMENT
THE
RATE FOR PROVISIONAL
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE
OBTAINED
FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
THE SURVEY FOR OCTOBER
+
DECEMBER 1990
COVERED
A QUARTERLY
NON-INSTITUTIONAL
OR 40,000 PERSONS, SELECTED
SAMPLE OF SOME 11,300 HOUSEHOLDS SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN POPULATION IN HONG KONG.
BY
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY
15 AND AGED MEMBER
ABOVE IN THE INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWING EACH HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.
IN
UNEMPLOYMENT
THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN MEASURING AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.
IN DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN
PUBLISHED FOUR THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH IS TIMES A YEAR.
THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 1990
GROUND FLOOR, BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AROUND MARCH 20 AT $11.50 COPY.
WILL
PER
HK'S PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON HEALTHY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS
HONG
KONG'S PROSPERITY
LARGELY
HEALTHY
DEPENDS
ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIALISTS DEVELOPMENT OF ITS SOCIAL AND
HONG KONG HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY, THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN, SAID TODAY (TURSDAY).
OF THE HONG MR LAN MADE THIS REMARK WHEN HE WELCOMED MEMBERS
AND COMMERCE ASSOCIATION DURING TONG INDUSTRIES
THEIR KONG KWUN
NEW AND
TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION THIS COURTESY CALL ON THE CITY AFTERNOON.
AT THE MEETING, MR LAN PAID TRIBUTE TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR LON LONG HISTORY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE TERRITORY'S COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.
ITS
CHEST "THESE INCLUDED RAISING FUNDS ANNUALLY FOR THE COMMUNITY
TAKING AN ACTIVE PART IN THE AND OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS,
ETHICS AMONG ITS DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SCHEME, PROMOTING BUSINESS MEMBERS AND HELPING TO SPREAD ANTI-CORRUPTION MESSAGES.
/"THE ASSOCIATION