APPENDICES
APPENDIX 18
(Chapter 8: Employment)
Number of Establishments and Employment in Principal Manufacturing Industry Groups
No. of establishments (1)
Industry group (2)(3)
Textiles and clothing
Sep 1990 Sep 1991 Sep 1992
No. of persons engaged (1) Sep 1990 Sep 1991 Sep 1992
13 527
12 391
10 262
319 917
286 278
239 947
Electronics (4)
1815
1 635
1 446
85 169
71 466
60 653
Watches and clocks (4)
1 784
1 706
1 524
27 960
23 935
18 995
Plastics (4)
4 976
4 377
4 085
51 315
41 522
35 347
Jewellery
1 496
1 522
1 387
17 426
16 204
13 821
Fabricated metal products (4)
6 447
6 092
5 621
50 784
46 000
39 881
Toys and dolls (4)
1 662
1 449
1 383
24 581
18 836
15 617
Electrical appliances
542
470
497
16 985
14 529
12 500
Total of the above groups (4)
29 944
27 554
24 253
554 713
486 411
410 071
(as a % of the corresponding figure of the whole manufacturing sector)
(61%)
(60%)
(58%)
(76%)
(74%)
(72%)
Notes:
(1) Up to 4th quarter 1990, figures are analysed by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC). As from March 1991, the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification (HSIC) is adopted for the classification of economic activities in place of ISIC. Figures from 1st quarter 1991 onwards are therefore available only in HSIC and are not strictly comparable to those in the past series which are in ISIC. To facilitate comparison over time, figures for 1990 are adjusted to conform to the classification of HSIC and presented in this table.
(2) For a breakdown of the number of establishments and employment in manufacturing industry by the HSIC, the table in Appendix 17 should be referred to. The statistics presented here are figures for industry groups in the manufacturing sector having more significant domestic export value but they cannot be readily derived from Appendix 17 because some of them may cut across more than one Major Group/Group in the HSIC.
(3) The coverage of the industry groups in the above table is given below:
(i) The industry group 'textile and clothing' corresponds to the major groups 'wearing apparel except footwear' and ‘textiles' in
Appendix 17.
(ii) The industry group 'electronics' includes 'office, accounting and computing machinery', 'radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus', 'electronic parts and components", "electronic toys', 'electronic industrial apparatus', 'watches and clocks, electronic' and ‘electronic products, n.e.c.'.
(iii) The industry group 'watches and clocks' includes 'watches and clocks, mechanical”; ‘watches and clocks, electronic'; 'metal wrist
watchbands' and 'cases and parts for watches and clocks, n.e.c."
(iv) The industry group 'plastics' corresponds to the major group 'plastics products' in Appendix 17.
(v) The industry group 'electrical appliances' includes 'electrical appliances and houseware', 'dry batteries (excl. lead accumulators)',
'electric and torch bulbs and tubes' and 'electrical products and accessories, n.e.c.”.
(vi) The industry group ‘jewellery' includes 'jewellery' and 'artificial pearls and imitation jewellery".
(vii) The industry group 'toys and dolls' includes ‘wooden toys', 'rubber toys', 'plastic toys', 'metal toys', 'electronic toys' and 'toys,
n.e.c.'.
(viii) The industry group 'fabricated metal products' corresponds to the major group 'fabricated metal products, except machinery and
equipment' in Appendix 17.
(4) There is some overlapping in industrial coverage in some of the above industrial groups:
(i) 'Watches and clocks, electronic' is included in both ‘electronics' and 'watches and clocks' groups.
(ii) 'Metal wrist watchbands' is included in both 'fabricated metal products' and 'watches and clocks' groups.
(iii) 'Electronic toys' is included in both 'electronics' and 'toys and dolls' groups.
(iv) 'Plastic toys' is included in both 'plastics' and 'toys and dolls' groups.
(v) 'Metal toys' is included in both "fabricated metal products' and 'toys and dolls' groups.
However, the figures of watches and clocks, electronic', 'metal wrist watchbands', 'electronic toys', 'plastic toys' and 'metal toys' are counted only once in the 'total of the above groups'.
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