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On the other hand, business receipts in the financing (except banking) industry continued to decrease, by 6% in value terms. There was however an improvement over the first quarter this year, when a decline of 30% was recorded. Compared with the first quarter of 1995, business receipts in the storage and the transport industries registered significant increases in value terms, by 17% and 10% respectively.
The business receipts in the banking, the import/export and the communication industries registered a moderate growth, by 7%, 6% and 5% respectively in value
terms.
However, business receipts in some other industries recorded decreases of various magnitudes. These included the business services, financing (except banking), retail, wholesale, insurance and restaurants industries.
Table 1 presents the provisional business receipts indices for service industries for the second quarter of 1995. Revised indices for the first quarter of 1995 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 businesses are obtained from two existing surveys regularly conducted by the Census and Statistics Department.
The report "Quarterly Business Receipts Indices for Service Industries, Second Quarter 1995" is now on sale at $7 per copy at the Government Publications Centre of the Information Services Department, Queensway Government Offices, Low Block, ground floor, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong.
It can also be purchased from the Publications Unit of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, 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.