1
2
cent
per
per cent
le
Development
In the last quarter of 1986 the Rehabilitation
Committee and the Hong Kong
Co-ordinating
Council of Social Service conducted a joint survey on
the
survey was based on a
The survey
Its results were
employment of disabled people.
at random from our Central sample of 3,415 people chosen
Registry of the Disabled.
analysed and
were published in December 1987. They indicated that about 36% of disabled people aged between 15 and 60 were then in
and, of
580 open employment and, of these, 58 were in the industrial
Labour
Department's
Selective
sector. This percentage is close to that also indicated by
Labour Department figures. The number of
of disabled people
placed in jobs by the
Placement Service has increased from 113
increased from 113 in 1980 when the
Service started
year.
found jobs in production related work.
to 1,033 last
Of these
about 60 per
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0
the
we
By applying these percentages to our estimate of
total number of disabled people of working age,
S estimate that there are about 34,000 di@abled people in open
of whom about 20,000 work employment,
in the industrial
sector. Our experience is that most of them are engaged in
light industrial work such as garment-making,
electronics, plastics and printing.
toy-making,
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