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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991

PRECEDING OVER

THE DECREASE OF 0.3 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD AND THE INCREASE OF 0.4 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT

CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER ARE BOTH

THE

SIGNIFICANT.

STATISTICALLY

THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS IN JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1991 WAS ESTIMATED AT 57,700, COMPARED WITH 66,900 IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING JUNE 1991 AND 46,600 IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER.

JUNE

SEPTEMBER 1991 1991 AND

WAS

1.5%,

1.0%

FOR

THE

THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE FOR JULY

TO FOR APRIL WITH 1.7% COMPARED CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER.

PRECEDING

THE DECREASE OF 0.2 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD IS STATISTICALLY NOT SIGNIFICANT WHILE THE INCREASE PERIOD A YEAR OF 0.5 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT OVER THE CORRESPONDING EARLIER IS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

THE

JULY ΤΟ THREE MONTHS PERIOD A YEAR

IN PERSONS NUMBER ESTIMATED

OF UNDEREMPLOYED SEPTEMBER 1991 WAS 43,200, COMPARED WITH 46,700 IN THE

CORRESPONDING ENDING JUNE 1991 AND 28,500 IN THE EARLIER.

OF

THE THAN

MATERIAL WORK)

CONSISTENT WITH THE

RECOMMENDATIONS 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 FULL-TIME WERE REGARDED AS UNDEREMPLOYED ONLY IF THEY WERE EITHER AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.

SEEKING OR

PEOPLE WHO

AS THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME JOB-SEEKERS (E.G. HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM MONTH TO MONTH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE VARIATIONS IN

IN BE USED THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME

COMPARISONS OVER TIME.

JOB-SEEKERS

SHOULD

MAKING

OBTAINED

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

—

THE SURVEY FOR JULY SEPTEMBER 1991 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE SCIENTIFICALLY SOME 11,700 HOUSEHOLDS OR 41,000 PERSONS, SELECTED REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION HONG KONG.

ΤΟ

IN

INTERVIEWING

PERSONAL AND LABOUR FORCE DATA WERE OBTAINED IN THE SURVEY

15 AGED

AND MEMBER

ABOVE IN EACH INDIVIDUAL

BY

THE

HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

UNEMPLOYMENT

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

/DETAILED ANALYSIS

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