FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1991
THE DECREASES OF 0.3 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE
THREE-MONTH CORRESPONDING SIGNIFICANT.
PERIOD AND 0.2
PERIOD A YEAR
PRECEDING
OF A PERCENTAGE
BELOW THE POINT EARLIER ARE BOTH STATISTICALLY
1990
THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS IN NOVEMBER JANUARY 1991 WAS 18,500, COMPARED WITH 26,900 IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING OCTOBER 1990 AND 24,800 IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR AGO.
RECOMMENDATIONS
OF
THE THAN MATERIAL
CONSISTENT WITH THE CURRENT 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 WERE EITHER AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.
FULL-TIME WORK SEEKING OR
CENSUS AND JOB-SEEKERS
MONTH
TO TAKE JOB-SEEKERS
COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER FOR
BECAUSE THE STATISTICS SAID
OF PROPORTION
FIRST-TIME (FOR EXAMPLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM MONTH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
OF OF THE VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER ACCOUNT SHOULD BE USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.
FIRST-TIME
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THE
PROVISIONAL THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM OF COUNTS, THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES COVERING THE LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS AFTER
UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.
THE
SEASONALLY PROVISIONAL
DECEMBER
1990
ADJUSTED
AND 1.4%
RATE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
THE PROVISIONAL
FEBRUARY 1991 WAS UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.1%.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE
OBTAINED
FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
THE SURVEY FOR NOVEMBER 1990 - JANUARY 1991 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF
SELECTED SOME
OR 11,200 HOUSEHOLDS
40,000 PERSONS, SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN POPULATION IN HONG KONG.
NON-INSTITUTIONAL
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY
EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.
INTERVIEWING
BY
THE
UNEMPLOYMENT
IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN MEASURING AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN
PUBLISHED THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH IS TIMES A YEAR.
IN FOUR
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.
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