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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1993

'RESPONDENTS WHO FELT THAT CIVIL SERVANTS' WORKING ATTITUDE WAS GOOD REMAINED THE SAME, AT 52 PER CENT, HE ADDED.

AS TO THE THREE MOST-TALKED-ABOUT PROBLEMS FACING THE TERRITORY, "HONG KONG FUTURE" CONTINUED TO TOP THE

LIST, AT 47 PER CENT, FOLLOWED BY "HOUSING", AT 31 PER CENT, AND "SOCIAL WELFARE", 19 PER CENT.

AT

PER CENT SAID THE BELIEVING THAT THE

ON THE "HONG KONG FUTURE" ISSUE, 22 GOVERNMENT HAD HANDLED IT WELL WITH 78 PER CENT ADMINISTRATION HAD EXERTED EFFORT IN SOLVING THE PROBLEM.

THE TWO RATINGS ARE ABOUT THE SAME AS THAT IN THE LAST SURVEY, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

THE POLL, WHICH INVOLVED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS WITH 1.458 PEOPLE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN NOVEMBER 15 AND 19, WAS THE 49TH IN THE SERIES OF REGULAR POLLS CONDUCTED BY THE HOME AFFAIRS BRANCH.

THE TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS WERE BASED ON A RANDOM SAMPLE OF RESIDENTIAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS CONTAINED IN THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES.

WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD OF A SELECTED TELEPHONE NUMBER, A RESPONDENT AGED BETWEEN 15 AND 64 WAS RANDOMLY CHOSEN FOR INTERVIEW.

VOLUME AND PRICE MOVEMENTS OF EXTERNAL TRADE IN SEPTEMBER

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THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF THIS YEAR DECREASED BY 4.2% AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, WHILE THAT OF RE-EXPORTS RECORDED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF 22%.

THESE ARE THE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

TAKING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS INCREASED BY 15%. IMPORTS ALSO INCREASED BY 15% IN VOLUME.

THE GROWTH IN THE VOLUME OF TRADE IS DERIVED FROM THE GROWTH IN TRADE VALUES WITH THE EFFECT OF PRICE CHANGES BEING DISCOUNTED.

AS REGARDS PRICE CHANGES OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.4% WHILE THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS DECREASED BY 0.4%. IMPORT PRICES DECREASED BY 0. 7%.

INDICES,

WHICH

PRICE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED BY CHANGES IN UNIT VALUE ARE COMPILED BASED ON AVERAGE UNIT VALUES

OR, COMMODITIES, BASED ON SPECIFIC PRICE DATA.

FOR CERTAIN

THE TERMS OF TRADE INDEX, DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF TOTAL EXPORT PRICE INDEX TO IMPORT PRICE INDEX, INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY 0.4% IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1993 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

/TAKING SEPTEMBER