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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1991

THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE AND UNDER EMPLOYMENT SITUATION.

THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

NOVEMBER

1990

JANUARY UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 0.6%.

1991

WAS

LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT

1.3%

AND

UNEMPLOYMENT

THE

RATE FOR PROVISIONAL

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE

OBTAINED

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

THE SURVEY FOR OCTOBER

+

DECEMBER 1990

COVERED

A QUARTERLY

NON-INSTITUTIONAL

OR 40,000 PERSONS, SELECTED

SAMPLE OF SOME 11,300 HOUSEHOLDS SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

BY

PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY

15 AND AGED MEMBER

ABOVE IN THE INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWING EACH HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

IN

UNEMPLOYMENT

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 DECEMBER 1990

GROUND FLOOR, BE AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AROUND MARCH 20 AT $11.50 COPY.

WILL

PER

HK'S PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON HEALTHY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS

HONG

KONG'S PROSPERITY

LARGELY

HEALTHY

DEPENDS

ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIALISTS DEVELOPMENT OF ITS SOCIAL AND

HONG KONG HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY, THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN, SAID TODAY (TURSDAY).

OF THE HONG MR LAN MADE THIS REMARK WHEN HE WELCOMED MEMBERS

AND COMMERCE ASSOCIATION DURING TONG INDUSTRIES

THEIR KONG KWUN

NEW AND

TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION THIS COURTESY CALL ON THE CITY AFTERNOON.

AT THE MEETING, MR LAN PAID TRIBUTE TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR LON LONG HISTORY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE TERRITORY'S COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.

ITS

CHEST "THESE INCLUDED RAISING FUNDS ANNUALLY FOR THE COMMUNITY

TAKING AN ACTIVE PART IN THE AND OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS,

ETHICS AMONG ITS DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SCHEME, PROMOTING BUSINESS MEMBERS AND HELPING TO SPREAD ANTI-CORRUPTION MESSAGES.

/"THE ASSOCIATION