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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991
PRECEDING OVER
THE DECREASE OF 0.3 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD AND THE INCREASE OF 0.4 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT
CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER ARE BOTH
THE
SIGNIFICANT.
STATISTICALLY
THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS IN JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1991 WAS ESTIMATED AT 57,700, COMPARED WITH 66,900 IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JUNE 1991 AND 46,600 IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER.
JUNE
SEPTEMBER 1991 1991 AND
WAS
1.5%,
1.0%
FOR
THE
THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE FOR JULY
TO FOR APRIL WITH 1.7% COMPARED CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER.
PRECEDING
THE DECREASE OF 0.2 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD IS STATISTICALLY NOT SIGNIFICANT WHILE THE INCREASE PERIOD A YEAR OF 0.5 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT OVER THE CORRESPONDING EARLIER IS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.
THE
JULY ΤΟ THREE MONTHS PERIOD A YEAR
IN PERSONS NUMBER ESTIMATED
OF UNDEREMPLOYED SEPTEMBER 1991 WAS 43,200, COMPARED WITH 46,700 IN THE
CORRESPONDING ENDING JUNE 1991 AND 28,500 IN THE EARLIER.
OF
THE THAN
MATERIAL WORK)
CONSISTENT WITH THE
RECOMMENDATIONS 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 FULL-TIME WERE REGARDED AS UNDEREMPLOYED ONLY IF THEY WERE EITHER AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.
SEEKING OR
PEOPLE WHO
AS THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME JOB-SEEKERS (E.G. HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM MONTH TO MONTH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE VARIATIONS IN
IN BE USED THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME
COMPARISONS OVER TIME.
JOB-SEEKERS
SHOULD
MAKING
OBTAINED
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
—
THE SURVEY FOR JULY SEPTEMBER 1991 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE SCIENTIFICALLY SOME 11,700 HOUSEHOLDS OR 41,000 PERSONS, SELECTED REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION HONG KONG.
ΤΟ
IN
INTERVIEWING
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY
15 AGED
AND MEMBER
ABOVE IN EACH INDIVIDUAL
BY
THE
HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.
UNEMPLOYMENT
IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN MEASURING AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.
/DETAILED ANALYSIS
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