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MONDAY, MAY 12, 1986
NEW TERRITORIES
1 304 000
26.0
1 885 000
34.6
ISLANDS
46 000
0.9
47 000
0.9
NORTH
114 000
2.3
145 000
2.7
SAI KUNG
42 000
0.8
45 000
0.8
SHA TIN
116 000
2.3
358 000
6.6
TAI PO
73 000
1.5
140 000
2.6
TSUEN WAN
197 000
3.9
241 000
4.4
TUEN MUN
119 000
2.4
285 000
5.2
YUEN LONG
187 000
3.7
210 000
3.8
KWAI CHUNG AND
TSING YI
410 000
8.2
414 000
7.6
MARINE
50 000
1.0
36 000
0.6
TRANSIENTS
14 000
0.3
26 000
0.5
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
20 000
0.4
9 000
0.2
TOTAL
5 021 000
100.0
5 444 000
100.0
*
FIGURES ARE ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST THOUSAND.
(A)
THE BOUNDARIES FOR CENTRAL AND WESTERN, WAN CHAI, TSUEN WAN, TUEN MUN AND YUEN LONG HAVE BEEN RE-DELINEATED SINCE MARCH 1985. THE 1981 CENSUS FIGURES FOR THESE DISTRICT BOARDS WERE ADJUSTED APPROXIMATELY TO THE NEW BOUNDARIES FOR COMPARISON.
(B) THE 1986 BY-CENSUS WAS BASED ON A ONE-SEVENTH SAMPLE OF THE
POPULATION. ESTIMATES OF POPULATION FOR THE DISTRICT BOARDS OBTAINED FROM THE BY-CENSUS, THEREFORE, ARE SUBJECT TO SAMPLING ERRORS. THE CENSUS IN 1981 WAS A FULL CENSUS COVERING THE ENTIRE POPULATION.
OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT REDISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION FROM THE MAIN URBAN AREAS (HONG KONG ISLAND, KOWLOON AND NEW KOWLOON) TO THE NEW TERRITORIES. THE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION IN THE NEW TERRITORIES ROSE FROM 26 PER CENT IN 1981 TO 35 PER CENT IN 1986. MUN AND TAI PO TOGETHER HAVE RECORDED AN ABSOLUTE INCREASE OF NEARLY 480 000 PEOPLE DURING THIS PERIOD.
INDEED, SHA TIN, TUEN
THE MARINE
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