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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1992

UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FOR AUGUST

—

OCTOBER

THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR THE PERIOD AUGUST ACCORDING TO OCTOBER WAS 2.0%, AND THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.8%, TO THE LATEST LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

'THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AND PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE FOR THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER TO WERE BOTH 1.9%.

THE

THE

NOVEMBER

THE LATEST FIGURES SUGGEST THAT BOTH THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE REMAINED GENERALLY STABLE IN RECENT MONTHS.

DURING THE PERIOD AUGUST

ADJUSTED

AND

OF UNEMPLOYED FIRST-TIME

JOB-

OF UNDEREMPLOYED

OCTOBER, THE NUMBER

OF PERSONS,

FOR VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER SEEKERS, WAS ESTIMATED AT 56,700, WHILE THE NUMBER PERSONS WAS ESTIMATED AT 51,300.

OBTAINED AND

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

OF

THE SURVEY FOR AUGUST OCTOBER COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE

то SOME 11,900 HOUSEHOLDS OR 41,100 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

WAS OBTAINED BY

DATA RELEVANT

EACH INTERVIEWING MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN THE HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED,

IN

INDIVIDUAL

THE

UNEMPLOYMENT THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN MEASURING

CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION.

DETAILED ANALYSIS OF LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN

SURVEY WHICH IS REPORT ON THE

GENERAL

IN

PUBLISHED

THE

HOUSEHOLD

QUARTERLY.

THE

NEXT REPORT COVERING THE QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER WILL AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS SALES

BE

CENTRE AROUND

DECEMBER 28 AT $15.50 A COPY.

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