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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1994

REGARDING APPEALS AGAINST DECISIONS OF DEMS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE BILL PROVIDED THE SECRETARY FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE WITH POWERS TO APPOINT AN APPEAL BOARD TO HEAR APPEALS.

DEMS

ISSUE WOULD

CODES OF

PRACTICE

TO

PROVIDE

PRACTICAL

GUIDANCE TO OPERATORS OF AMUSEMENT RIDES.

OWNERS OF PERMIT UNDER THE

THE PPEO WILL BE AMENDED CONSEQUENTIALLY TO EXEMPT AMUSEMENT RIDES FROM THE REQUIREMENT TO OBTAIN A PPEO, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

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UPON ENACTMENT OF THE BILL, THE AMUSEMENT RIDES (SAFETY) (FEES) REGULATION SPECIFYING THE FEES PAYABLE UNDER THE BILL WOULD BE MADE BY THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY WHILE THE AMUSEMENT RIDES (SAFETY) (OPERATION

BY BE MADE WOULD

THE AND MAINTENANCE) RECREATION AND CULTURE.

REGULATION

SECRETARY

FOR

UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FIGURES

FOR OCTOBER

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DECEMBER 1993

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THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR OCTOBER DECEMBER LAST YEAR WAS 2.0%, AND THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.5%, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1993 JANUARY 1994 WAS 2.0%, WHILE THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.6%.

THE LATEST FIGURES SUGGEST THAT THE LABOUR TIGHT IN RECENT MONTHS.

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MARKET REMAINED

DURING THE PERIOD OCTOBER DECEMBER 1993, THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS, ADJUSTED FOR VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER OF FIRST- TIME JOB-SEEKERS, WAS ESTIMATED AT 57,200,

NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS WAS ESTIMATED AT 43,600.

WHILE THE

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

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THE SURVEY FOR OCTOBER DECEMBER 1993 COVERED A QUARTERLY SAMPLE OF SOME 11,900 HOUSEHOLDS OR 40,800 PERSONS, SELECTED SCIENTIFICALLY TO REPRESENT THE LAND-BASED CIVILIAN POPULATION IN HONG KONG.

RELEVANT DATA WAS OBTAINED BY INTERVIEWING MEMBER AGED 15 AND ABOVE IN THE HOUSEHOLDS SAMPLED.

NON-INSTITUTIONAL

EACH INDIVIDUAL

THE

IN THE SURVEY, THE DEFINITIONS USED IN MEASURING UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE RECOMMENDED BY INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION.

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