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Reply by the Secretary for Education & Manpower to a Question by the Hon NGAI Shiu kit, OBE, JP in the Legislative Council on 25 May 1988

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8. MR. NGAI asked (in Cantonese):

Will the Government inform this Council the latest statistics of handicapped people employed in the industrial sector and the publicity programmes undertaken at the moment to encourage more manufacturers in light industries to employ handicapped people in the production process?

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:

Answer

Sir,

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Disability statistics

are much more difficult

and complicated than may appear at first sight and no

country has yet found a way to maintain accurate figures of

the numbers of disabled people. This means we also have

difficulty in maintaining accurate figures of the number of

them in employment and in particular types of employment.

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We maintain a Central Registry of the Disabled.

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However its accuracy depends on voluntary registration and

we know from operational experience that it is not

complete. For planning purposes, we therefore have to

supplement the figures in our Central Registry with

estimates based on the advice of local experts and studies

conducted in Hong Kong and elsewhere. We take a great deal

of trouble over these estimates and have gradually improved

them over the years; but they still need to be treated with

great caution.

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