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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1989

FOR CENSUS AND COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER

JOB SEEKERS STATISTICS SAID THAT BECAUSE THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME

FROM MONTH TO (FOR EXAMPLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES

ADJUSTED ΤΟ TAKE MONTH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY

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

OF PROVISIONAL

RATES

THE COVERING AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST

THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM COUNTS, THE

AND UNEMPLOYMENT

UNDEREMPLOYMENT LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.

THE

L

PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY NOVEMBER

FOR

ADJUSTED

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CENT AND THE

PROVISIONAL

1989 WAS 1.3 PER SEPTEMBER UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.8 PER CENT.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

CONDUCTED

FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

WERB OBTAINED BY THE CENSUS

THIS SURVEY

COVERED

A

OF

SOME QUARTERLY SAMPLE

14,000 SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY ΤΟ REPRESENT HOUSEHOLDS OR 52,000 PERSONS, THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

SURVEY BY PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE

AGED 15 INDIVIDUAL MEMBER

AND ABOVE EN THE

INTERVIEWING BACH

HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

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.

QUARTER

ENDING

SEPTEMBER 1989 CENTRE, DECEMBER

GROUND 20 AT

THE THE NEXT REPORT COVERING

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS THE WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AROUND $10 PER COPY.

0

PSDB TO HOLD SEMINARS FOR SPORTS EXECUTIVES

THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF SEMINARS AND

WORKSHOPS ΤΟ INTRODUCE THE WORK AND FUNCTIONS OF THE RECENTLY ESTABLISHED PROVISIONAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT BOARD (PSDB) WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY (DECEMBER 191 AT THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S TRAINING SCHOOL AT ΟΙ KWAN ROAD, WAN CHAI.

ALL ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARIES, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS WHO ARE WORKING IN VARIOUS SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS SUBVENTED BY THE BOARD HAVE BEEN INVITED TO ATTEND.

/"THE BOARD