APPENDICES
APPENDIX 21
(Chapter 8: Employment)
Number of Persons engaged (other than those in the Civil Service) by Selected Industry Group and Number of Manual Workers at Construction Sites
Industry Sector/Major Industry Group
1993
1994
1995
Mining and quarrying
Manufacturing
Wearing apparel
427
508 133
488 438 382
491
Food product, beverage and tobacco manufactures
23 470
23 785
386 106 22 306
134 841
101 544
82 432
Leather and leather products and footwear
4 395
2 924
2 223
Textiles
75 742
71 352
57 499
Wood and cork products, furniture and fixtures
4 654
3 752
3 208
Paper and paper products
10 358
8 156
7 682
Printing, publishing and allied industries
40 918
42 621
44 790
Chemicals and chemical products, products of petroleum and coal
7 771
7 434
6 962
Rubber and plastic products
28 251
20 464
16 459
Non-metallic mineral products
3 062
3 446
3.340
Basic metal
2. 309
2.003
1 822
Fabricated metal products
34 626
29 264
25 082
Office, accounting and computing machines
11 761
12 145
10 518
Radio, television & communication equipment
5 654
4 986
3 970
Electronic parts and components
Electrical appliances & houseware
Other machinery and equipment
Transport equipment
21 792
18 327
19 462
5 970
3 878
3 352
35 813
31 794
29 383
14 010
12.525
10 824
Professional instrument and optical goods
21 311
17 223
15 921
Other manufacturing industries
21 425
20 759
18 871
Electricity and gas
11 989
11 789
11 745
Wholesale, retail and importlexport trades, restaurants and hotels
958 042
1 051 193
1 030 871
Wholesale
79 518
79 843
79 813
Retail
198 199
207 772
196 072
Import/Export
452 262
532 913
535 793
Restaurants
187 655
191 870
182 057
Hotels and boarding houses
40 408
38 795
37 136
Transport, storage and communications
153 325
166 029
169 954
Land passenger transport
23 925
25 080
26 725
Water and air transport
33 873
34 906
34 971
Supporting services to transport
17 337
19 694
21 298
Services incidental to transport
41 347
45 414
45 512
Storage
5 742
6 300
5 942
Communications
31 102
34 635
35 506
Financing, insurance, real estate and business services
336 026
361 072
375 366
Financial institutions
112 149
118 712
119 730
Stock, commodity and bullion brokers
12 699
12 606
13 274
Insurance
20 019
20 239
22 027
Real estate
63 365
66 181
72 110
Business services
127 793
143 334
148 225
Community, social and personal services
Sanitary and similar services
Education and related services
Medical and health services
Other community and social services
Amusement and recreational services
Personal services
Total
275 480
291 653
298 264
27 823
31 504
33 215
89 877
89 824
94 428
い
46 394
53.993
57 843
28 023
28 358
28 800
31 220
32 809
33 819
52 143
55 165
50 159
2 243 422
2 320 606
2 272 797
Manual workers at construction sites
Notes: (a) Figures refer to September of the year.
52 179
60 392
65 821
(b) 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.
(c) The appendix does not cover outworkers in the manufacturing sector and workers in the following activities:
(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 organizations, authors and other independent artists, domestic helpers and miscellaneous
recreational and personal services.
(d) 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.
(e) Manual workers at construction sites include foremen, technicians, craftmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workers.
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