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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1990
THE
SEASONALLY PROVISIONAL
ADJUSTED 1990 WAS 1.6 PER CENT UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.9 PER CENT.
APRIL
-
JUNE
RATE
FOR
UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE PROVISIONAL
OBTAINED
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
OF THE SURVEY FOR MARCH - MAY 1990 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE SOME 11,500 HOUSEHOLDS OR 41,100 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY TO REI RESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.
BY
THE
BY
MEASURING
PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY
EACH
MEMBER INDIVIDUAL
AND 'NTER" IEWING
AGED 15
IN ABOVE HOUSE. VLDS SAMPLED. IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED THE ILO.
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN
PUBLISHED THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH IS TIMES A YEAR.
THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE 1990 WILL AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND FLOOR, BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AROUND SEPTEMBER 20 AT $11.50 COPY.
IN
FOUR
BE
GPO PER
MARCH EMPLOYMENT, VACANCIES AND PAYROLL STATISTICS RELEASED
IN
MARCH 1990, EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMPARED WITH
1989, WHILE EMPLOYMENT MARCH SECTOR DECREASED, ACCORDING TO FIGURES RELEASED THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
IN
SECTOR SERVICES
INCREASED
THE MANUFACTURING TODAY (SATURDAY) BY
THUS THE SHIFT IN EMPLOYMENT
FROM MANUFACTURING TO SERVICES
CONTINUED.
SECTOR COMPARISON
THERE WERE '64,700 PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURING MARCH 1990, REPRESENTING A DECREASE OF 6.1 PER CENT IN WITH MARCH 1989.
IN
IMPORT
EMPLOYMENT IN THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, TRADES AND RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS SECTOR, AT 773,400 IN WAS 9.4 PER CENT HIGHER THAN IN MARCH 1989.
EMPLOYMENT
IN
AND EXPORT MARCH 1990,
REAL ESTATE AND
THE FINANCING, INSURANCE, BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR, AT 263,300, WAS UP BY 9.3 PER CENT.
/EMPLOYMENT AT
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