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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1988

TAKE ACCOUNT

COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER

STATISTICS SAID THAT THE PROPORTION

OF

FOR CENSUS AND FIRST-TIME JOB SEEKERS, FOR

EXAMPLE, PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL, VARIES FROM MONTH OT MONTH.

BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED TO THEREFORE, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD

OF THE VARIAT FONS IN THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME JOB-SEEKERS SHOULD BE USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.

THE COMMISSIONER ADDED

ON A SYSTEM OF MANUAL FOR THE LATEST EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES

AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES MONTH, PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT

COVERING

COULD BE THE LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD

MADE AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO

WEEKS AFTER THE SURVEY.

THAT, BASED

THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.

TREND IN THE

FOR

RATE UNEMPLOYMENT PER CENT AND THE PROVISONAL

THE

OCTOBER

—

SEASONALLY PROVISIONAL DECEMBER 1987 WAS 1.9 UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1 PER CENT.

ADJUSTED

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

CONDUCTED FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

WERE

OBTAINED BY THE CENSUS

THIS SURVEY COVERS A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 14,000 HOUSEHOLDS

SCIENTIFICALLY 50,000 PERSONS,

LAND-BASED

OR

CIVILIAN

PERSONAL AND

LABOUR INTERVIEWING EACH HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

SELECTED

TO

REPRESENT THE NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG. FORCE DATA WERK OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY BY INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN THE

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

WHICH

GIVEN IN

IS PUBLISHED FOUR

DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIMES A YEAR.

THE NEXT REPORT

COVERING

THE

QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 1987 SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS SALES CENTRE AROUND MARCH 20, 1988, AT $9.50 PER COPY.

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