Information about Brain Drain
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17.
The two basic methods of categorising to
establish the profile of persons leaving is by occupation
and by level of education.
two sources:
Information is available from
(a) all applicants for CNCC fill in a C&SD
questionnaire in addition to the CNCC
application itself. The questionnaire includes occupation and education level; and
(b) 6 of the 7 main immigrating countries (all
except Canada) also ask those receiving visas to complete the same questionnaire when a visa
is issued. The return rate is very
rate is very high.
18.
The Census and Statistics Department breaks the working population down into a number of occupation
categories for classification purposes.
In assessing
"brain drain", we are primarily concerned with those in the "professional, administrative and managerial workers"
Statistics on the overall numbers of such
category.
persons in the population as a whole and the number of
Annex C
visas obtained by such persons are at Annex C.
These
show that in 1987, the proportion of visas obtained by this category was 42% of those issued to working
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