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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1987

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UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FOR APRIL TO JUNE

THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BETWEEN APRIL AND JUNE THIS YEAR DECLINED FURTHER WHILE THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE REMAINED STABLE AT A LOW LEVEL, 1987, ACCORDING TO THE COMPARED WITH THE THREE MONTHS ENDING MARCH LATEST LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE CENSUS

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FOR RATE

APRIL

JUNE THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT

WITH 2.1 PER CENT FOR THE THREE 1987 WAS 1.8 PER CENT, COMPARED

SAME PERIOD A YEAR MONTHS ENDING MARCH 1987 AND 3 PER CENT FOR THE EARLIER.

THREE

THE DECREASES OF 0.3 PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE PREVIOUS

PERIOD A YEAR NTH PERIOD AND 1.2 PERCENTAGE POINTS BELOW THE SAME EARLIER ARE BOTH STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

IN APRIL

JUNE 1987 WAS THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS

ENDING ESTIMATED AT 47,800, COMPARED WITH 54,800 FOR THE THREE MONTHS MARCH 1987 AND OF 80,600 FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JUNE 1986.

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+

CENT.

JUNE 1987 WAS 1.1 PER CENT FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING

WAS 1.9 JUNE 1986

PER

THE PERIOD 0.8 IS

THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE FOR APRIL CENT, WHICH COMPARES WITH 1 PER MARCH 1987. THE RATE FOR APRIL · INCREASE OF 0.1 PERCENTAGE POINT OVER THE PREVIOUS THREE MONTH

WHILE THE DECREASE OF NOT SIGNIFICANT, IS STATISTICALLY

YEAR PERIOD

BARLIER

BELOW

THE

PERCENTAGE POINT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

SAME

25,500 FOR

JUNE

MONTH PERIOD PERIOD ENDING JUNE

THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS FOR APRIL

THE THREE 1987 WAS 29,500, COMPARED WITH ENDING MARCH 1987 AND 52,200 FOR THE THREE MONTH 1986.

CONSISTENT WITH

OF

THE THAN MATERIAL FULL-TIME WORK) WERE EITHER SEEKING OR

RECOMMENDATIONS THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO), PERSONS WHO WORKED LE99 35 HOURS A WEEK DUE TO ECONOMIC REASONS (SUCH AS SLACK WORK, SHORTAGE, MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN AND INABILITY TO FIND WERE REGARDED AS UNDEREMPLOYED ONLY IF THEY AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.

FOR

CENSUS AND JOB-SEEKERS MONTH TO MONTH, TAKE ACCOUNT JOB-SEEKERS 9 HOULD BR

COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER STATISTICS SAID THAT BECAUSE THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME (E.G. PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED TO OF THE VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.

/THE COMMISSIONER