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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1987

OF

THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM

MANUAL FOR EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES

THE LATEST MONTH, PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES COVERING

COULD THE LATEST THREE MONTH PERIOD

BE MADE AVAILABLE WITHIN WEEKS AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST TREND IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.

THE PROVISIONAL

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SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, FOR MAY JULY 1987 WAS 1.8 PER CENT AND THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1 PER CENT.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE OBTAINED CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT. THIS SURVEY COVERS A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 14,000 HOUSEHOLDS OR 51,000 PERSONS, SELECTED REPRESENT THE

CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL

HONG KONG,

LAND-BASED

SCIENTIFICALLY POPULATION

TO

IN

SURVEY BY PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE

EACH INTERVIEWING

INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN THE MEASURING HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED. IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.

SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT SEPTEMBER 20, 1987 AT $9.50 PER COPY.

GIVEN IN DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH

PUBLISHED FOUR

JUNE THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING TIMES A YEAR.

CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

IS

1987 AROUND

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