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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1987

THAT,

BASED ON A SYSTEM OF MANUAL FOR THE LATEST

THE COMMISSIONER ADDED EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES

MONTH, PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES COVERING THE LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN TREND IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND

AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST

SITUATION. UNDEREMPLOYMENT

FOR

FEBRUARY

THE PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED)

PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT MARCH MAY 1987 WAS 1.6 PER CENT AND THE RATE WAS 1.1 PER CENT. (THE UNADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR -APRIL 1987 WAS 1.8 PER CENT.)

WERE OBTAINED CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEDPARTMENT.

THIS

SURVEY COVERS

A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 14,000 SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY ΤΟ REPRESENT HOUSEHOLDS OR 51,000 PERSONS,

IN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION

HONG KONG. THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN

FORCE LABOUR

DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE PERSONAL AND

SURVEY BY EACH INDIVIDUAL

ABOVE MEMBER AGED 15 AND INTERVIEWING

IN THE IN MEASURING HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED. IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED

RECOMMENDED BY UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE THE ILO.

GIVEN IN DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS

WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY

MARCH 1987 TIMES A YEAR. THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AROUND SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM THE JUNE 20 AT $9.50 PER COPY.

HK-SWEDEN TEXTILES PACT SIGNED

SPOKESMAN A

FOR THE

FIVE-YEAR

TRADE

(WEDNESDAY) THAT A NEW

DEPARTMENT

ANNOUNCED

TODAY

AGREEMENT

HAS

BILATERAL TEXTILES

THE CURRENT AGREEMENT BEEN INITIALLED BETWEEN HONG KONG AND SWEDEN, EXPIRES ON AUGUST 31, 1987.

CLOTHING PRODUCTS UNDER RESTRAINT A FOURTH CATEGORY

UNDER THE NEW AGREEMENT THREE CATEGORIES OF {TRACKSUITS, SHORTS AND CORSETS) WHICH ARE CURRENTLY

1, 1987. FROM SEPTEMBER WILL BE LIBERALISED AS (BATHING SUITS) WILL BE LIBERALISED IN 1990.

IN ADDITION,