Like Tree4Likes
  • 1 Post By RobRoy

HK Jobless rate at 6.6% - 16 year high

Closed Thread
  1. #1

    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Location
    θ–„ζ‰Άζž—
    Posts
    47,971

    HK Jobless rate at 6.6% - 16 year high

    From RTHK


    The number of jobless people rose by 1,500 from 244,300 to 245,800 in the latest survey.

    The city’s labour force stood at 3.89 million.

    The Census and Statistics Department says the unemployment rate worsened across almost all the major sectors, with the retail, accommodation and food services industries having recorded more distinct increases.

    https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...abChangeable=0

  2. #2

    Join Date
    Jul 2006
    Posts
    3,886

    And I wonder how many just don't appear in the statistics at all.

    Myself for example. What does one have to do to officially become one of the great unwashed?


  3. #3

    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Posts
    1,693

    I think the number who have had to take a (hopefully temporary) salary cut is much larger than the number who got unemployed. People can't afford to be fully unemployed in this city, rather scraping by on whatever they can get.

    shri likes this.