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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1990

MAY

UNDEREMPLOYMENT

THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR JULY 1990 WAS

AND THE PROVISIONAL 1.7 PER CENT RATE WAS 1.0 PER CENT.

TO

OBTAINED

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE SURVEY FOR APRIL TO JUNE 1990 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 11,500 HOUSEHOLDS OR 41,000 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG SURVEY BY KONG. PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE

AND ABOVE IN THE MEMBER AGED 15

EACH

INTERVIEWING HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

INDIVIDUAL

UNEMPLOYMENT

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

IN DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN

PUBLISHED FOUR 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

BK

GPO PER

COPY.

ACTING GOVERNOR VISITS CHILDREN'S CENTRE

SIR DAVID

FORD,

AND LADY FORD TODAY THE ACTING GOVERNOR,

DEPARTMENT'S CHUK YUEN WELFARE SOCIAL VISITED THE (TUESDAY) VISITED CHILDREN'S RECEPTION CENTRE IN WONG TAI SIN TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES WORK OF THE CENTRE.

ACCOMPANIED

BY THE

THE

MR M.D.

WHICH CENTRE

OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DIRECTOR VARIOUS FACILITIES AT THE CARTLAND, THEY TOURED THE PROVIDES TEMPORARY CARE TO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHT.

THE DEDICATION EDUCATIONAL

OF

BOTH SIR DAVID AND LADY FORD WERE IMPRESSED BY

IN

AND IN THE STAFF

PROVIDING

ORGANISING CARE PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE CHILDREN.

THE CENTRE, WHICH HAS A CAPACITY OF

80, NOW ACCOMMODATES 69

CHILDREN.

IN

NEED

THE SOCIAL

SIR DAVID LEARNED THAT ABANDONED BABIES AND CHILDREN

ΤΟ THE CENTRE BY OF CARE AND PROTECTION ARE WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE.

REFERRED

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