Table 18
(Chapter 6: Employment)
Number of Establishments and Persons Engaged (other than those in the Civil Service) by Industry Sector, and Number of Construction Sites and Manual Workers at Construction Sites
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2003
2007
2008
Persons
Persons
Industry sector/sub-sector
Establishments
engaged Establishments
engaged Establishments
Persons engaged
Mining and quarrying
7
180
5
Manufacturing
16 272
Electricity and gas
16
168 348
8 337
14 838
19
102
156 035 7 895
4
98
14 470
20
149 957
7 739
Wholesale, retail and
import and export trades,
restaurants and hotels
Wholesale
14 529
64 693
14 823
67 193
14 481
65 329
Retail
55 114
217 102
57 327
236 780
56 599
239 550
Import and export trade
96 834
490 700
96 646
521 039
95 244
512 664
Restaurants
10 574
177 164
12 111
207 129
11 945
207 301
Hotels and boarding houses
696
24 201
817
31 724
855
32 508
Transport, storage and
communications
Transport and storage
9 408
Communications
1 139
142 854
31 451
9 642
984
162 023
29 569
9 269
944
163 378
30 250
Financing, insurance, real
estate and business services
Financing and insurance
14 703
147 729
15 735
179 761
16 241
181 238
Real estate
8 645
85 946
10 761
104 337
10 787
104 293
Business services
27 327
190 158
31 933
233 179
31 645
241 002
Community, social and
personal services
32 734
416 508
37 655
469 050
37 898
484 116
All industry sectors above
Construction sites
287 998 Z 165 371
303 296 2 405 816
300 402
2 419 423
1 044
68 306
946
50 103
986
49 448
Notes: (a) Figures refer to the end of December of the year,
(b) Figures 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) Figures in this table do not cover establishments and persons engaged in the following activities:
(i) Agriculture and fishing.
(ii) Construction (other than construction sites).
(iii) Hawkers and retail pitches (other than market stalls).
(iv) Taxis, public light buses, goods vehicles, barges, lighters and stevedoring services.
(v) Self-employed insurance agents with no business registration.
(vi) Public administration, religious organisations, authors and other independent artists, domestic helpers and some
recreational and personal services.
(d) For construction sites, establishments refer to number of sites while persons engaged refer to manual workers only, (e) Manual workers at construction sites include skilled, semi-skilled and general workers.
Source: Employment Statistics Section, Census and Statistics Department.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 5076)