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Reply:

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Mr President,

(a)

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the total number of persons registered under the Programme during the period from the commencement of the Programme on 1 April 1995 up to the end of September this year, the number of registrants who have successfully obtained employment and the proportion of these persons to the total number of registrants;

the trades in which registrants under the Programme were formerly engaged; the numbers of registrants who have been unemployed for less than three months and for a period of three to six month respectively, and their respective proportions to the total number of registrants;

the types of jobs in which the majority of the successfully placed registrants were employed, and the respective proportions of those employed as office assistants, unskilled workers and watchmen to the total number of successfully placed registrants;

comparative figures on the types of jobs, wages, working hours, working environment, employee benefits and employees' compensation before and after the registrants have obtained employment, as well as the number of these registrants receiving the median wage of their respective trades; and

the respective proportions of registrants who have declined a job offer on account of dissatisfaction with its job nature, wage level and working hours to the total number of registrants?

A total of 11,712 job seekers have registered with the Job Matching Programme (JMP) during the period from 1 April 1995 (the commencement date of the MP) to the end of September 1996. Of these, 8,982 registrants have been successfully offered employment, representing a success rate of 76.7%.