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Over the five-year period, from 1989-90 to 1994-95, the most significant changes in the expenditure weights of CPIs have been a decline in the expenditure share of food (by four to six percentage points) and an increase in that of housing (by four to five percentage points).

The new expenditure patterns derived from the results of the 1994-95 HES has been used in compiling the new 1994-95-based CPIs.

More details on the results of the 1994-95 HES and the new CPI series are given in the report. The report also contains concepts and methodologies of the 1994- 95 HES and the CPIs.

The report can be purchased at $30 per copy from the Government Publication Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong. It is on sale at the Publications Unit of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th floor. Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

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Health manpower survey to be conducted

The Department of Health will conduct a health manpower survey next month to update information on the size and characteristics of the various types of medical and health staff in Hong Kong.

Announcing the impending survey today (Tuesday), a spokesman for the department said the results would be useful for health manpower planning purposes.

Questionnaires will be sent early next month to about 10,000 institutions with medical and health staff in both the public and private sectors requesting them to supply the relevant information.

These institutions include hospitals, clinics, maternity homes, private practitioners' offices, dental surgeries, medical, X-ray and dental laboratories, dispensaries, elderly homes and optical shops.

It is hoped that these institutions will give the survey full support and return the completed questionnaires to the Statistics Unit of the Department of Health on or before July 26.