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TABLE 2: QUARTERLY ANALYSIS OF LOANS FOR USE IN HONG KONG BY SECTOR MARCH 1991 # +
(HK$ma)
Har 1991
Earlier quarters
(X change to March 1991)
Dec 1990
Sep 1990
Mar 1990
Manufacturing
51,871
Transport and transport
equipment
43.543
49,315 (
41.232 (
5.2 %)
5.6 %)
49.287 ( 5.2 %)
38.971 ( 11.7 %)
48,062 ( 7.9 %)
37.149 (17.2 %)
Building, construction.
110,183
108.112 (
1.9 %)
105.088 (
8 %)
101,149 ( 8.9 %)
property development and investment
Wholesale and retail trade
73.399
Financial concerns *
Individuals:
111.575
74,641 (
104,730 [
1.7 %)
6.5 %)
70.629 ( 3.9 %)
98,988 ( 12.7 %)
65.358 (12.3 X)
90.507 (23.3 %)
to purchase flats in the Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme
15.071
13.664 ( 10.3 %)
13.899 ( 8.4 %)
12,660 ( 19.0 X
to purchase other residential property
141.648
132,166 (
7.2 %)
119.858 ( 18.2 %)
107,406 ( 31.9 X)
other purposes
Others
Total
65,271
114.673
727,234
60,896 (
104.612 (
689,368 (
7.2 )
9.6 %)
5.5 %)
60.599 ( 7.7 %)
101,968 ( 12.5 %)
659.287 ( 10.3 %)
56.828 ( 14.9 X)
99,428 ( 15.3 %)
618,547 ( 17.6 %)
# Starting from December 1988. more detailed statistics on loans to the transport sector.
to building, construction. property development and investment and to financial concerns are available. They are published in the Monthly Digest of Statistics from the January 1989 issue onwards.
As a
In December 1988, the return for reporting loans for use by sector was revised. result of this, some authorized institutions have now more properly classified their loans according to intended usage rather than the business of the loan recipients.
This excludes funds advanced to authorized institutions
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