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A spokesman for the Department explained that legislation stipulated that data on individual persons, households and quarters obtained from the 1996 Population By- census must be treated in strict confidence and all questionnaires containing such information must be destroyed within one year after the By-census.
He stressed that at all stages of the By-census operation, steps were taken to ensure that the confidentiality of individual data was strictly maintained. "Any identifications of enumerated individual persons Or households from the questionnaires were not entered into the computer," he added.
"Questionnaires completed in the By-census were destroyed in order to dispel any possible anxiety which the public might have over their use for non-statistical purposes in the future," he said.
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Water storage figure
Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 78.5 per cent of capacity or 460.322 million cubic metres.
This time last year the reservoirs contained 464.257 million cubic metres of water, representing 79.2 per cent of capacity.
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