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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1991

THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION. THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1990 WAS 1.3 PER CENT AND THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.8 PER CENT.

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

THE SURVEY FOR SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1990 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 11,300 HOUSEHOLDS OR 40,000 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY BY INTERVIEWING EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN THE HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

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

DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN IN THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH IS PUBLISHED FOUR TIMES A YEAR.

THE NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 1990 BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND GENERAL POST OFFICE BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL IN LATE AT $11.50 PER COPY.

WILL FLOOR, MARCH

OIL SUPPLY RESOURCES REMAIN AVAILABLE TO HK

THE

SINCE THE ONSET OF CO-OPERATED VERY CLOSELY WITH SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (TUESDAY) DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE.

GULF CRISIS THE GOVERNMENT HAS THE OIL INDUSTRY, A GOVERNMENT FOLLOWING A MEETING OF THE OIL

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE MEETING REVIEWED THE PRESENT SITUATION AND IN PARTICULAR POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR HONG SUPPLIES SHOULD WAR BREAK OUT.

SUPPLY KONG'S

AND

HE SAID ALL THE OIL COMPANIES HAD REAFFIRMED THAT THEIR SUPPLY RESOURCES REMAINED AVAILABLE AND UNAFFECTED BY THE

STOCKS

SITUATION IN THE GULF.

"THE COMMITTEE CONSIDERS THERE ARE NO GROUNDS FOR THAT LOCAL AND REGIONAL OIL STOCKS ARE ADEQUATE TO DEAL ANY SITUATION," HE SAID.

CONCERN AND WITH ALMOST

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