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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1990

OF PROVISIONAL

RATES COVERING THE AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS

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

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

THE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED FEBRUARY 1990 WAS 1.5 PER CENT

THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR DECEMBER 1989 AND THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.6 PER CENT.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

CONDUCTED FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

WERE OBTAINED BY THE CENSUS

JANUARY OR

1990 COVERED A HOUSEHOLDS

48,000 THE LAND-BASED

THE

QUARTERLY SELECTED

SURVEY FOR NOVEMBER 1989 SAMPLE OF

SOME 13,000

REPRESENT SCIENTIFICALLY TO NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

PERSONS, CIVILIAN

SURVEY BY

PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE

15 AND ABOVE IN THE MEMBER AGED INDIVIDUAL

INTERVIEWING EACH

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.

WILL THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 1989

CENTRE, GPO BUILDING, BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL, AROUND MARCH 20 AT $10 PER COPY.

SURVEY TO GAUGE INDUSTRIALISTS' NEEDS COMPLETED

INADEQUATE ACCOMMODATION WAS THE MAJOR FACTOR FOR A HIGH

MANUFACTURING

OF MOBILITY

ACCORDING

THE

AMONG

FINDINGS TO GOVERNMENT-COMMISSIONED SURVEY.

THE SURVEY ON "LAND AND

LEVEL

ESTABLISHMENTS

OF A

IN RECENTLY

HONG

KONG,

COMPLETED

REQUIREMENTS FACILITY

OF INDUSTRIAL

ESTABLISHMENTS" SUCCESSFULLY INTERVIEWED 2,000 ESTABLISHMENTS.

/THE FINDINGS