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Feature article on findings of household expenditure survey
A feature article entitled "Results of the 1994/95 Household Expenditure Survey and the Rebasing of the Consumer Price Indices" is published in the June 1996 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics.
The 1994/95 Household Expenditure Survey (HES) was conducted from October 1994 to September 1995 to collect up-to-date information on expenditure patterns of households in Hong Kong. The information collected is used in updating the expenditure weights which are essential inputs to the compilation of the Consumer Price Indices (CPIs).
Based on the results of the survey, the weighting patterns of the CPIs were updated. Over the five-year period, from 1989/90 to 1994/95, the most significant changes in the expenditure weights of the CPIs have been a decline in the expenditure share of food (by 4 to 6 percentage points) and an increase in that of housing (by 4 to 5 percentage points).
The new expenditure patterns derived from the results of the 1994/95 HES are used in compiling the new 1994/95-based CPIs.
More details on the results of the 1994/95 HES and the new CPI series are given in the feature article.
The June 1996 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics is now on sale at $50 a copy. It contains most up-to-date information on Hong Kong's situation regarding economic growth, the labour market, inflation and many other social and economic issues.
Purchases of this publication can be made at the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong. The publication is also available for sale at the Publications Unit of the Census & Statistics Department, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Regular subscription can also be arranged with the Publications (Sales) Office of the Information Services Department on 2598 8194.
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