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Quarterly survey of employment and vacancies
The Census and Statistic Department has just started the Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies to collect data on employment and vacancies in major sectors of the economy in respect of December 1996.
This survey is conducted quarterly and the survey results are useful in serving as short-term economic indicators and providing information on the latest changes in the labour market.
For this round of the survey, questionnaires are being mailed to about 60,000 sampled establishments. They were drawn from various sectors including the industrial sector (mining and quarrying; manufacturing; electricity and gas), the distributive trades sector (wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels) and the services sector (transport, storage and communications; financing, insurance, real estate and business services; community, social and personal services).
Information on number of persons engaged and vacancies as at December 31, 1996 will be sought from each sampled establishment.
In accordance with the Census and Statistic (Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies) Order, these establishments are required to complete and return the questionnaires to the Census and Statistics Department within the specified period. If they have difficulties in completing the questionnaires, they may contact the department for assistance on 2582 5076.
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Feature articles in monthly statistical digest
Two feature articles entitled "Labour Productivity in Hong Kong's Manufacturing Industries, 1982 - 1994" and "Summary Results of the 1996 Population By-census" are published in the December 1996 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics, which is now on sale.
The labour productivity index (LPI) is compiled by relating an output index to an index of labour input. The LPI for an industry in a year therefore reflects the change in output of that industry over the base year, after discounting the effect of different amounts of labour input in the two periods. From another angle, it reflects the change in output per unit labour input.