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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1992
RESIDENTS' EXPENDITURE
DOCTOR CONSULTATION,
IN ADDITION, QUESTIONS ON HONG KONG ABROAD, ORGAN DONATION, SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE, HEALTH STATUS OF THE POPULATION IN HONG KONG, EXPENDITURE ON INFREQUENTLY-PURCHASED COMMODITY AND HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE ON RENT WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED IN THIS ROUND OF THE SURVEY.
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EACH QUARTER, ABOUT 11,800 HOUSEHOLDS ARE SCIENTIFICALLY FROM ALL DISTRICTS FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SURVEY.
TO MEASURE MORE ACCURATELY THE CHANGES IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POPULATION, THE SURVEY ADOPTS AN OVERLAPPING SAMPLE DESIGN SUCH THAT ABOUT HALF OF THE HOUSEHOLDS ENUMERATED IN GIVEN QUARTER ARE THE SAME AS THOSE ENUMERATED IN THE QUARTER BEFORE.
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AN OFFICIAL LETTER, IN BOTH CHINESE AND ENGLISH, HAS BEEN SENT TO THE SAMPLED HOUSEHOLDS TO EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE OF THE SURVEY AND ΤΟ SEEK THEIR VOLUNTARY CO-OPERATION.
CENSUS OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT, EACH CARRYING A GOVERNMENT IDENTITY CARD AND A CERTIFICATE FOR CONDUCTING THE SURVEY, WILL VISIT THE HOUSEHOLDS TO COLLECT INFORMATION.
THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY IS CONDUCTED UNDER PART IIIA OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS ORDINANCE.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE ORDINANCE, DATA RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL PERSONS OR HOUSEHOLDS COLLECTED WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AND WILL NOT BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC, ANY PRIVATE ORGANISATIONS OR OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.
235 RETURN TO VIETNAM
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A GROUP OF 235 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS TODAY (TUESDAY) RETURNED то VIETNAM UNDER THE UNHCR'S VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME.
COMPRISING 90 MEN, 63 WOMEN, 37 BOYS AND 45 GIRLS, THEY WERE
THE 109TH BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.
THIS GROUP BROUGHT TO 5,397 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE RETURNED VOLUNTARILY THIS YEAR, AND TO 19,376 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RETURNEES SINCE THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MARCH 1989.
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