India, April 22 -- Hong Kong's unemployment rate held steady in the January-March period, labor force statistics from the Census and Statistics Department showed on Tuesday.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate came in at 3.2 percent in the January-March period, the same as in the December-February period.
The data showed that the underemployment rate also remained stable at 1.1 percent.
On an unadjusted basis, the unemployment rate climbed to 3.2 percent from 2.9 percent.
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The number of unemployed persons was 122,800, compared to 111,700 in the December-February period.
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