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.

"The increasingly uncertain external environment due to escalated trade confl...