APPENDICES
APPENDIX 21
(Chapter 8: Employment)
Number of Persons engaged (excluding Civil Service) by Selected Industry Group and Number of Manual Workers at Construction Sites
Industry Sector/Major Industry Group
1992
1993
1994
Mining and quarrying
564
427
Manufacturing
571 181
Food product, beverage and tobacco manufactures
24 731
508 133 23 470
488 438 382 23 785
Wearing apparel
154 975
134 841
101 544
Leather and leather products and footwear
6 551
4 395
2 924
Textiles
84 972
75 742
71 352
Wood and cork products, furniture and fixtures
6 253
4 654
3 752
Paper and paper products
12 754
10 358
8 156
Printing, publishing and allied industries
38 497
40 918
42 621
Chemicals and chemical products, products of petroleum and coal
8 007
7771
7 434
Rubber and plastic products
36 480
28-251
Non-metallic mineral products
3 286
3 062
Basic metal
2810
2309
20 464
3 446 2003
Fabricated metal products
39 881
34 626
29 264
Office, accounting and computing machines
13.508
11 761
12 145
Radio, television & communication equipment
8 487
5 654
4 986
Electronic parts and components
24 141
21 792
18 327
Electrical appliances & houseware
7963
5 970
3 878
Other machinery and equipment
37 548
35 813
31 794
Transport equipment
13 134
14 010
12 525
Professional instrument and optical goods
24 188
21 311
17 223
Other manufacturing industries
23 014
21 425
20 759
Electricity and gas
11 763
11 989
11 789
Wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels
906 859
958 042
1 051 193
Wholesale
78 296
79 518
79 843
Retail
203 745
198 199
207 772
Import/Export
391 457
452 262
532 913
Restaurants
194 454
187 655
191 870
Hotels and boarding houses
38 907
40 408
38 795
Transport, storage and communication
144 158
153 325
166 029
Land passenger transport
23 558
23 925
25 080
Water and air transport
30 696
33 873
34 906
Supporting services to transport
16 312
17 337
19 694
Storage
Insurance
Medical and health services
Services incidental to transport
Communication
Financing, insurance, real estate and business services
Financial institutions
Stock, commodity and bullion brokers
Real estate
Business services
Community, social and personal services
Sanitary and similar services
Education and related services
Other community and social services
Amusement and recreational services
Personal services
Total
Manual workers at consturction sites
Notes: (1) Figures refer to September of the year.
(2) Data are based on the Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies and the Quarterly Employment Survey of Construction Sites conducted by
the Census and Statistics Department.
(3) The appendix does not cover outworkers in the manufacturing sector and workers in the following activities:
38 503
41 347
45 414
5 655
5742
6 300
29.435
31 102
34 635
307 538
336 026
361 072
103 469
112 149
118 712
11 325
12 699
12 606
19 995
20 019
20 239
55 672
63 365
66 181
117 076
127 793
143 334
זי
263 274
275 480
291 653
27 108
27 823
31 504
84 427
89 877
89 824
41 838
46 394
53 993
27 569
28 023
28 358
27 337
31 220
32 809
54 995
52 143
55 165
2 205 337
2 243 422
2 320 606
63 384
52 179
60 392
(i) Agriculture and fishing.
(ii) Construction (other than manual worker at sites).
(iii) Hawkers and retail pitches (other than market stalls).
(iv) Taxis, public light buses, goods vehicles, barges, lighters and stevedoring services.
(v) Veterinary services, religious organisations, authors and other independent artists, domestic helpers and miscellaneous recreational and
personal services.
(4) Unlike Chapters 7 and 8, the textiles industry in this Appendix includes 'knit outerwear and underwear"; however, the textiles industry quoted in
Chapters 7 and 8 does not cover 'knit outerwear and underwear' which has been included in the clothing industry.
(5) Manual workers at construction sites include foremen, technicians, craftmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workers.
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