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population would underestimate the proportion of young people

employed in general. A further difficulty arises with the 1971

Census brealldown by age due to the fact that the age groupings

used are 10-14, 25-39, 40-54, 55 and over. However, a reasonable

guess of the proportions of the manufacturing population over and under

30 can be made from the horizontal total column in Table 2 below,

providing one bears in mind of course the previously mentioned

probable under-estimation of young people. Such a quess would not,

we argue here, be totally dissimilar from the actual age/sex

distribution of the sample members,

Table 2

Age/Sex Distribution of the Manufacturing Population (1971) Census Report)

Under 25

25-39

40-54

55 & over

Total

Male

116842 (17)

127938 (193) 108415 (168) 338028 (58)

391223

Female 158418 (23

52040 (8%) 56297 (8%) 21784. (3%)

294539

275260

185978

164712

59812.

695762*

* The percentage figures are based on this number to allow easy comparison with the pilot

survey.

Marital Status:

The majority of the sample (63) were single, only 37 were married;

at first this seems a surprisingly low number since 51 married

in the

respondents sample were aged 20-29 years. However, this appears

to be commensurate with the average age of marriage in Hồng Kông?

Hong Kong Census Report 1971 (n.36)

Males 20-24 years proportion married

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*

25-29

7.9%

36.5%

Females

20-24

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32.4%

25-29

**

79.9%

Number of Children.

Nearly a (24) of those respondents who were married did hot have

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