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Following is a reminder of the releases to be issued in the coming three months (December 2007 - February 2008). The schedules for issuing press releases on statistical data in 2007 and 2008 were provided to the mass media in September 2006 and September 2007 respectively. No change has been made to the original schedule.
December 2007
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Date Press Release
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3 Retail Sales Statistics for October 2007
7 Statistics on Vessels, Port Cargo and
Containers for 3rd Quarter 2007
10 Quarterly Business Receipts Indices for
Service Industries for 3rd Quarter 2007
13 Construction Output Statistics for
3rd Quarter 2007
14 Quarterly Index of Industrial Production
and Quarterly Producer Price Indices for
Manufacturing Industries for 3rd Quarter
2007
14 Gross National Product and External Factor
Income Flows for 3rd Quarter 2007
14 Volume and Price Statistics of External
Merchandise Trade for October 2007
18 Unemployment and Underemployment
Statistics for Sep – Nov 2007
20 Consumer Price Index for November 2007
20 Statistics on Trade Involving Outward
processing in the Mainland of China
for 3rd Quarter 2007
20 Quarterly Constant Price Gross
Domestic Product by Economic
Activity for 3rd Quarter 2007
21 Employment and Vacancies Statistics for
September 2007
21 Balance of Payments Statistics for
3rd Quarter 2007
27 Payroll and Wage Statistics for
3rd Quarter 2007
28 External Merchandise Trade Statistics
for November 2007
January 2008
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Date Press Release
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3 Retail Sales Statistics for November 2007
17 Unemployment and Underemployment
Statistics for Oct - Dec 2007
17 Volume and Price Statistics of External
Merchandise Trade for November 2007
22 Consumer Price Index for December 2007
24 Results of the Quarterly Business Tendency
Survey for 1st Quarter 2008
24 External Merchandise Trade Statistics
for December 2007
31 Retail Sales Statistics for December 2007
February 2008
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Date Press Release
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5 Domestic Export Statistics Classified by
Industrial Origin for 2007
5 Restaurant Receipts and Purchases
Statistics for 4th Quarter 2007
14 Volume and Price Statistics of External
Merchandise Trade for December 2007
14 Year-end Population for 2007
19 Unemployment and Underemployment
Statistics for Nov 2007 - Jan 2008
22 Consumer Price Index for January 2008
27 Gross Domestic Product for 4th Quarter
2007 and the whole year of 2007 : data
contained in the Budget supporting
documents (Note)
28 External Merchandise Trade Statistics
for January 2008
Note : The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the fourth quarter of 2007 and the whole year of 2007 together with other supporting materials will be released along with the Financial Secretary's Budget Speech. According to the Financial Secretary's Office, the budget speech is scheduled to be delivered on February 27, 2008. No separate press release on the GDP for the fourth quarter of 2007 and the whole year of 2007 will be issued by the Census and Statistics Department on that day.
If required, the schedule for releases in the remaining months of 2008 can also be obtained from the Technical Secretariat of the Census and Statistics Department. (Telephone no: 2582 4958).
Ends/Friday, November 30, 2007
Issued at HKT 11:01
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