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Special Topics Report No. 11 on Social Statistics published

Special Topics Report No. 11 on social statistics is published today (Monday).

It contains the findings of six special enquiries conducted by the Census and Statistics Department via the General Household Survey during October 1992 to December 1993.

The six topics covered in the report are labour mobility; domestic helpers; sick leave and maternity leave patterns of employees; cigarette smoking pattern; public awareness of the concept of energy efficiency; and taxi waiting time.

The report is now on sale at $81 a copy at the Government Publications Centre, Queensway Government Offices, Low Block, Ground Floor, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, and at the Publications Section of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

End/Monday, March 6, 1995

Central allocation of Primary One places

The Education Department announced today (Monday) that all children who had applied for a public-sector Primary One place but had not secured a discretionary place would be centrally allocated to a Government or aided primary school for the 1995 school year.

They will receive a letter in the next few days from the Primary One Admission Unit of the Education Department requesting them to go to a specified distribution/collection centre to collect a "Choice of Schools" Form and a list of all Government and aided primary schools in their home district from March 11 (Saturday) to March 13 (Monday) from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm.