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Wednesday, December 27, 1972

QUESTIONNAIRES COMPLETED FOR INDUSTRY CENSUS DESTROYED

Industrial Production Census To Be Conducted In 1974

About 30,000 questionnaire forms completed by Hong Kong manufacturers

last year for the 1971 Census of Manufacturing Establishments were destroyed

at the Lai Chi Kok incinerator today (Wednesday),

The destruction of these forms was required under the Census Ordinance.

The Census of Manufacturing Establishments, carried out by the

Census and Statistics Department in July and August last year, was the first

of its kind undertaken in Hong Kong,

Information on such subjects as the number of people employed by

an individual manufacturing establishment, the types of products manufactured,

and the value of production was obtained by nearly 150 enumerators.

A report on the findings will be published in February or March

next year, a spokesman for the Census and Statisties Department said.

He said information gathered in this Census would be used in an

Industrial Production Census to be undertaken in 1974.

The spokesman added that consultations with manufacturing establishments

for the 1974 Census had already started.

Note to Editors:

Copies of a photograph showing the

questionnaire forms being destroyed at the incinerator

are distributed separately in the G.1,5, press boxes.

Release time: 6.30 p.m.