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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1991

THE DECREASES OF 0.3 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE

THREE-MONTH CORRESPONDING SIGNIFICANT.

PERIOD AND 0.2

PERIOD A YEAR

PRECEDING

OF A PERCENTAGE

BELOW THE POINT EARLIER ARE BOTH STATISTICALLY

1990

THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS IN NOVEMBER JANUARY 1991 WAS 18,500, COMPARED WITH 26,900 IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING OCTOBER 1990 AND 24,800 IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR AGO.

RECOMMENDATIONS

OF

THE THAN MATERIAL

CONSISTENT WITH THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO), PERSONS WHO WORKED LESS 35 HOURS A WEEK DUE TO ECONOMIC REASONS (SUCH AS SLACK WORK, SHORTAGE, MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN AND INABILITY TO FIND WERE REGARDED AS UNDEREMPLOYED ONLY IF THEY WERE EITHER AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.

FULL-TIME WORK SEEKING OR

CENSUS AND JOB-SEEKERS

MONTH

TO TAKE JOB-SEEKERS

COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER FOR

BECAUSE THE STATISTICS SAID

OF PROPORTION

FIRST-TIME (FOR EXAMPLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM MONTH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

OF OF THE VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER ACCOUNT SHOULD BE USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.

FIRST-TIME

ΤΟ

THE

PROVISIONAL THE COMMISSIONER ADDED THAT, BASED ON A SYSTEM OF COUNTS, THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES COVERING THE LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE WITHIN TWO WEEKS AFTER

UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY. THESE PROVIDE AN EARLY INDICATION OF THE LATEST AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.

THE

SEASONALLY PROVISIONAL

DECEMBER

1990

ADJUSTED

AND 1.4%

RATE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT

THE PROVISIONAL

FEBRUARY 1991 WAS UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.1%.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE

OBTAINED

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

THE SURVEY FOR NOVEMBER 1990 - JANUARY 1991 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF

SELECTED SOME

OR 11,200 HOUSEHOLDS

40,000 PERSONS, SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

NON-INSTITUTIONAL

PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY

EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

INTERVIEWING

BY

THE

UNEMPLOYMENT

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

DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN

PUBLISHED THE REPORT ON THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WHICH IS TIMES A YEAR.

IN FOUR

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

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