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Labour productivity of the manufacturing sector in HK 82-92
A feature article entitled "Labour Productivity of the Manufacturing Sector in Hong Kong, 1982-92" is published in the May 1995 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics (HKMDS).
The labour productivity index (LPI) is compiled by relating an output index to an index of labour input.
The LPI for an industry in a year therefore reflects change in output of that industry over the base year, after discounting the effect of different amounts of labour input in the two periods. From another angle, it reflects the change in output per unit labour input.
A feature article addressing this subject was published in the July 1994 issue of the HKMDS. The present article presents a revised series of labour productivity index, expressed in the form of "three-year centred moving averages", from 1982 to 1992.
Further discussion of the relevant factors affecting the underlying trends of labour productivity is also included.
The May 1995 issue of the HKMDS is already on sale at $50 a copy. Purchase can be made at the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong. The publication is also available for sale at the Publication Section of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th Floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Regular subscription can also be arranged with the Publication (Sales) Office of the Information Services Department on tel 2598 8194.
End/Tuesday, May 30, 1995
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