September 2016 issue of Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics now available
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Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains two feature articles entitled "Composite Employment Estimates 2015" and "Statistics on Students and Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools in Hong Kong during the School Years from 2006/07 to 2015/16". Statistics presented in the "Statistics on Students and Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools in Hong Kong during the School Years from 2006/07 to 2015/16" article are based on the data source from the Education Bureau, Government Secretariat.
"Composite Employment Estimates 2015"
In studies of employment statistics, the issue of discrepancies observed between the employment data obtained from establishment-based surveys which refer to occupied posts in firms and those data obtained from household surveys which refer to persons employed is common. To tackle this, the C&SD has been compiling a set of Composite Employment Estimates (CEE) which reconcile, under a designated statistical framework, the results obtained from the household-based General Household Survey and the establishment-based Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies since 1997.
This feature article provides the CEE figures in individual industries for 2010 to 2015. It also gives an account of the characteristics of CEE and briefly discusses the differences and usage of the CEE vis-à-vis the other employment figures.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Employment Statistics and Central Register of Establishments Section, C&SD (Tel: 2582 4751; email: employment@censtatd.gov.hk).
"Statistics on Students and Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools in Hong Kong during the School Years from 2006/07 to 2015/16"
According to the data source from the Education Bureau of the Government Secretariat, there were 337 558 students and 24 115 teachers in 572 ordinary primary schools in Hong Kong in the 2015/16 school year. The corresponding overall pupil-teacher (PT) ratio was 13.9. As for secondary education, there were 506 ordinary secondary day schools with 352 609 students, 29 110 teachers and an overall PT ratio of 12.1. This feature article provides a brief analysis of student enrolment and teacher statistics pertaining to primary and secondary education in Hong Kong during the school years from 2006/07 to 2015/16.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the School Education Statistics Section, Education Bureau, Government Secretariat (Tel: 3509 8436; email: edstat@edb.gov.hk).
Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; National Income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest free of charge at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp140.jsp?productCode=B1010002).
Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Services Section of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk).
Ends/Thursday, September 15, 2016
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