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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1989

CONSISTENT

WITH THE

CURRENT

RECOMMENDATIONS

OF

THE THAN MATERIAL

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO), PERSONS WHO WORKED LESS 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.

FULL-TIME WORK) OR

WERE EITHER

SEEKING

FOR CENSUS AND JOB-SEEKERS MONTH TO MONTH, TAKE ACCOUNT JOB-SEEKERS SHOULD BE

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.

OF PROVISIONAL

RATES COVERING THE AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS

THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM

UNDEREMPLOYMENT COUNTS, THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AFTER THE SURVEY.

THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION,

THE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT

THE

AUGUST

SEASONALLY PROVISIONAL

1.4 WAS

UNEMPLOYMENT ADJUSTED PER CENT AND THE 1989 OCTOBER UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.7 PER CENT.

RATE FOR PROVISIONAL

WERE OBTAINED THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT,

OF SOME 14.000 то REPRESENT

SAMPLE THIS SURVEY COVERED A QUARTERLY

SCIENTIFICALLY SELECTED HOUSEHOLDS OR 51,000 PERSONS. THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

SURVEY BY AND ABOVE IN THE

PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE

AGED 15 MEMBER INDIVIDUAL EACH HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

INTERVIEWING

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

GIVEN

IN DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS

WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY TIMES A YEAR.

THE QUARTER ENDING THE GOVERNMENT

PUBLICATIONS DECEMBER 20

SEPTEMBER

CENTRE,

1989

GPO

AT

810 PER

THE NEXT REPORT COVERING WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AROUND COPY.

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