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On the other hand, employment in the wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels sector showed a marginal decrease of 0.9%, while that in the manufacturing sector fell by 10.3%.
The respective employment figures are shown in greater detail in Table 1.
Vacancies at construction sites recorded a five-fold increase in June 1995 over a year earlier.
The marked increases in both employment and vacancies at construction sites reflected the heavy demand for construction workers by the new airport and related projects.
However, vacancies recorded significant decreases both in manufacturing and in the major service sectors. The decline was particularly notable in the wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels sector, but this was due in part to a high base of comparison in June 1994, when vacancies situation was particularly
acute.
Job vacancies figures are shown in greater detail in Table 2.
Of the 52,000 vacancies (other than those in the Civil Service) in June 1995, the majority fell into three major occupation groups, viz clerks, service workers and shop sales workers, and associate professionals. As vacancies figures analysed by major occupation group are compiled starting from June 1995, the corresponding figures for the earlier quarters are not available for comparison.
The respective vacancies figures broken down by major occupation group are
shown in Table 3.
The above statistics for June 1995 were derived from the Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies, Supplementary Survey of Job Vacancies and the Quarterly Employment Survey of Construction Sites conducted by the department.
In the former two surveys, some economic activities (that is those where self- employment are predominant, such as taxi operators, hawkers and freelance authors) are not covered and hence the respective employment and vacancies figures relate only to those selected industries included in the surveys. In the latter survey on the construction sites, employment and vacancies figures relate to manual workers only.
Detailed breakdowns of the above statistics are available from the Quarterly Report of Employment, Vacancies and Payroll Statistics, June 1995, and the Quarterly Report of Employment and Vacancies at Construction Sites, June 1995.
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