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Commenting on other characteristics, Mr Sinclair said both the young male and the young female would have been educated up to lower secondary and would be
single.
"The male but not the female would be employed and the male would already have a criminal conviction.
"Both of them would typically be taking heroin, but smoking it rather than injecting. Cannabis and cough medicine are also common in this age group," he said.
There was evidence that living in an area where drug taking was prevalent and having a friend who was a drug taker were characteristics correlated with drug taking, he added. Drug education needs to deal in a rounded and balanced way with all the issues surrounding drug taking, according to Mr Sinclair.
"Feelings of belonging, optimism, self-reliance, the ability to get absorbed in an interest or hobby - all these discourage drug use," he said.
End/Tuesday, January 17, 1995
1995 Crime Victimisation Survey in good progress
The 1995 Crime Victimisation Survey conducted by the Census and Statistics Department has started last Wednesday (January 11).
The survey is conducted under the auspices of the Fight Crime Committee. The main purpose is to collect up-to-date information about crimes, victims and attitudes of victims towards reporting crime in 1994.
The findings of the survey will be very useful to the Fight Crime Committee and the Police in evaluating the effectiveness of existing crime prevention and anti- crime measures as well as in devising new measures.
The survey is conducted under Part III A of the Census and Statistics Ordinance (Cap.316, Laws of Hong Kong) and is notified in the Government Notice No. 3762 in the Gazette of October 7 last year.
In accordance with the provision of the Ordinance, all data collected in the survey relating to individual persons or households will be treated in strict confidence and will not be released to any other parties, including government departments. Only aggregate statistics will be published.