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UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FIGURES FOR JULY
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SEPTEMBER
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SEPTEMBER
THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR JULY 1994 WAS 2.3%, AND THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.1%, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
CENSUS
THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
OCTOBER PERIOD OF AUGUST UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.3%.
1994 WAS
2.2%.
THE WHILE
FOR THE PROVISIONAL
THE LATEST FIGURES SUGGEST GENERALLY TIGHT IN RECENT MONTHS.
THAT
THE
LABOUR
MARKET
REMAINED
DURING THE PERIOD OF JULY
FOR ADJUSTED PERSONS,
SEPTEMBER 1994, THE NUMBER OF NUMBER OF VARIATIONS
THE
NUMBER OF
IN
UNEMPLOYED FIRST-TIME JOB-SEEKERS, WAS ESTIMATED AT 68,600, WHILE THE UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS WAS ESTIMATED AT 32,600.
WERE OBTAINED
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
THE SURVEY FOR JULY - SEPTEMBER 1994 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY OF SOME 12,500 HOUSEHOLDS OR 43,000 PERSONS,
POPULATION IN TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL HONG KONG.
BY
BACH INTERVIEWING OBTAINED RELEVANT DATA WAS MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN THE HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.
INDIVIDUAL
MEASURING UNEMPLOYMENT BY THE RECOMMENDED THOSE
IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT
FOLLOW CLOSELY
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION.
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS 18 THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIMES A YEAR.
GIVEN IN
WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR
BY CENTRE
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