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Table 1 presents the provisional business receipts indices for the fourth quarter of 1994. Revised indices for the third quarter of 1994 are also included. The quarterly average of business receipts in 1992 was taken as 100.
Table 2 shows the time series of quarterly business receipts indices. Annual indices are also included.
Statistics on banking are obtained from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority; and those on retail and restaurants business are obtained from two existing surveys regularly conducted by the Census and Statistics Department.
The report "Quarterly Business Receipts Indices for Service Industries, Fourth Quarter 1994" is now on sale at $6 per copy at the Government Publications Centre, Queensway Government Offices, Low Block, Ground Floor, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong. It can also be purchased from the Publications Section of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Enquiries about the survey results may be directed to the Business Services Statistics Section of the Census and Statistics Department on 2802 1244.