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Following is a reminder of the releases to be issued between November 2011 and January 2012. The schedules for issuing press releases on statistical data in 2011 and 2012 were provided to the mass media in September 2010 and September 2011 respectively. No change has been made to the original schedules.
November 2011
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Date Press Release
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1 Retail Sales Statistics for September 2011
1 Restaurant Receipts and Purchases Statistics
for Third Quarter 2011
10 Volume and Price Statistics of External
Merchandise Trade for September 2011
11 Gross Domestic Product for Third Quarter 2011:
Data contained in the press release entitled
"Economic Situation in the Third Quarter of
2011 and Latest GDP and Price Forecasts for
2011" issued by the Economic Analysis Division
of the Economic Analysis and Business
Facilitation Unit under the Financial
Secretary's Office (Note)
17 Unemployment and Underemployment Statistics
for August - October 2011
22 Consumer Price Index for October 2011
24 External Merchandise Trade Statistics for
October 2011
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 Third Quarter Economic Report 2011 and final update of GDP and prices forecasts for 2011 as a whole. The GDP for the third quarter of 2011 will also be released there. No separate press release on the GDP for the third quarter of 2011 will be issued by the Census and Statistics Department on that day.
December 2011
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Date Press Release
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1 Retail Sales Statistics for October 2011
6 Statistics on Vessels, Port Cargo and
Containers for Third Quarter 2011
9 Quarterly Business Receipts Indices for
Service Industries for Third Quarter 2011
12 Construction Output Statistics for Third
Quarter 2011
13 Index of Industrial Production and Producer
Price Indices for the Industrial Sector for
Third Quarter 2011
15 Volume and Price Statistics of External
Merchandise Trade for October 2011
15 Gross National Product and External Factor
Income Flows for Third Quarter 2011
19 Unemployment and Underemployment Statistics
for September - November 2011
19 Employment and Vacancies Statistics for
September 2011
19 Statistics on Trade Involving Outward
Processing in the Mainland of China for
Third Quarter 2011
20 Consumer Price Index for November 2011
20 Chain Volume Measures of Gross Domestic
Product by Economic Activity for Third
Quarter 2011
22 Balance of Payments and International
Investment Position Statistics for Third
Quarter 2011
29 External Merchandise Trade Statistics for
November 2011
29 Payroll and Wage Statistics for Third
Quarter 2011
January 2012
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Date Press Release
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3 Retail Sales Statistics for November 2011
17 Volume and Price Statistics of External
Merchandise Trade for November 2011
19 Unemployment and Underemployment Statistics
for October - December 2011
20 Consumer Price Index for December 2011
20 Results of the Quarterly Business Tendency
Survey for First Quarter 2012
26 External Merchandise Trade Statistics for
December 2011
If required, the schedule for releases in the remaining months of 2012 can also be obtained from the department's Technical Secretariat (Tel.: 2582 4958).
Ends/Monday, October 31, 2011
Issued at HKT 11:02
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