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Following is a reminder of the releases to be issued in the coming three months (August - October 2006). The schedule for issuing press releases on statistical data in 2006 was provided to the mass media in September 2005. No change has been made to the original schedule.
August 2006
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Date Press Release
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1 Retail Sales Statistics for June 2006
10 Domestic Export Statistics
Classified by Industrial Origin for
2nd Quarter 2006
11 Restaurant Receipts and Purchases
Statistics for 2nd Quarter 2006
14 Mid-year Population for 2006
17 Unemployment and Underemployment
Statistics for May - Jul 2006
18 Volume and Price Statistics
of External Merchandise Trade
for June 2006
22 Gross Domestic Product for
2nd Quarter 2006 : data contained
in the press release entitled
"Economic Situation in the Second
Quarter of 2006 and Updated GDP
and Price Forecasts for 2006"
issued by the Economic Analysis
Division of the Economic Analysis
and Business Facilitation Unit
under the Financial Secretary's
Office (Note)
22 Consumer Price Index for July 2006
25 External Merchandise Trade
Statistics for July 2006
Note: The Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Analysis and Business Facilitation Unit under the Financial Secretary's Office will issue a press release on the Half-yearly Economic Report 2006 and second update of GDP and prices forecasts for 2006 as a whole. The GDP for the second quarter of 2006 will also be released there. No separate press release on the GDP for the second quarter of 2006 will be issued by the Census and Statistics Department on that day.
September 2006
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Date Press Release
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1 Retail Sales Statistics for July 2006
8 Statistics on Vessels, Port Cargo
and Containers for 2nd Quarter 2006
12 Quarterly Business Receipts
Indices for Service Industries for
2nd Quarter 2006
14 Quarterly Index of Industrial
Production and Quarterly Producer
Price Indices for Manufacturing
Industries for 2nd Quarter 2006
14 Construction Output Statistics
for 2nd Quarter 2006
18 Gross National Product and
External Factor Income Flows for
2nd Quarter 2006
19 Unemployment and Underemployment
Statistics for Jun - Aug 2006
19 Statistics on Trade Involving
Outward Processing in the
Mainland of China for 2nd
Quarter 2006
21 Employment and Vacancies
Statistics for June 2006
22 Consumer Price Index for August 2006
22 Volume and Price Statistics of
External Merchandise Trade for July 2006
25 Quarterly Constant Price Gross
Domestic Product by Economic
Activity for 2nd Quarter 2006
25 External Merchandise Trade
Statistics for August 2006
26 Balance of Payments Statistics
for 2nd Quarter 2006
26 Payroll and Wage Statistics
for 2nd Quarter 2006
October 2006
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Date Press Release
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3 Retail Sales Statistics for August 2006
17 Unemployment and Underemployment
Statistics for Jul - Sep 2006
20 Consumer Price Index for September 2006
23 Volume and Price Statistics of
External Merchandise Trade for
August 2006
26 External Merchandise Trade
Statistics for September 2006
27 Results of the Quarterly Business
Tendency Survey for 4th Quarter 2006
If required, the schedule for releases in the remaining months of 2006 can also be obtained from the Technical Secretariat of the Census and Statistics Department (Telephone no.: 2582 4958).
Ends/Monday, July 31, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:00
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