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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1987

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THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM OF MANUAL FOR THE LATEST SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES

AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES COVERING COULD BR MADE AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES. BOTH

THE COMMISSIONER ADDED EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM MONTH, PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT THE LATEST THREE MONTH PERIOD WEEKS AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE

THE LATEST TREND IN RATES APPARENTLY REMAINED AT A VERY LOW LEVEL.

AUGUST

THE PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT

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RATE, SEASONALLY

ADJUSTED, FOR

OCTOBER 1987 WAS 1.9 PER CENT AND THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.0 PER CENT.

SAMPLE OF

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE OBTAINED BY THE CENSUS FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT. THIS SURVEY COVERS A QUARTERLY SOME 14,000 HOUSEHOLDS OR 50,000 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY

CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED

HONG KONG.

POPULATION

TO

IN

PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE

BACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE

SURVEY IN

BY

THE

INTERVIEWING HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN MRASURING UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE ILO.

IN

DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN

WHICH THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY

FOUR IS PUBLISHED TIMES A YEAR. THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER 1987 SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AROUND DECEMBER 20 AT $9.50 PER COPY.

PRAISE FOR HK'S STEPS AGAINST SMOKING

THE HONG KONG

CONSIDERED BY

DELEGATES OVERSEAS

GOVERNMENT'S

MOVEMENT,

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ACCORDING

STRATEGIES WERE EXAMPLE" IN

THE

FOR

THE

SMOKING CONTROL

A "SHINING то THE DEPUTY SECRETARY SMOKING CONTROL HEALTH AND WELFARE, MISS ELAINE CHUNG, WHO HAS JUST RETURNED FROM SIXTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON SMOKING AND HEALTH IN TOKYO.

ENTITLED THE WIDE AGAINST TOBACCO

"SMOKING RANGE OF USE. SHE

IN HER PRESENTATION TO THE WORLD CONFERENCE,

CHUNG DESCRIBED MISS CONTROL IN HONG KONG" * MEASURES ADOPTED BY GOVERNMENT SINCE 1981 ALSO EXPLAINED THE RATIONALE BEHIND RACH MEASURE.

/BETWEEN 1982