January 1996 (Revised)
10 -
Percentage changes in the value of orders-on-hand in
February 1996 over January 1995
(Provisional)
over February 1995
All industries covered in the survey
+2
+1
Wearing apparel
-2
-3
Textiles
-8
-8
Electronic products
+7
+6
Electrical products
+9
18
Fabricated metal products
+9
+25
Plastic products
-4
Printing and publishing
+1
-4
Changes within +/-0.5%
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Data on business firms available for public retrieval
A comprehensive database containing up-to-date particulars of about 400,000 active business establishments in Hong Kong is available for retrieval by members of the public from the central register of establishments of the Census and Statistics Department.
The register serves mainly as the sampling frame for various economic surveys conducted by the department. A sample listing containing 20 per cent of non-confidential records randomly selected from the Register is accessible by prospective users.
The records of the register is now widely used by many government departments and private organisations in their publicity, business promotion, survey and research work.
Application for the supply of information such as the name, address, major type of business activity and employment size class of all or part of the listed records can be made to the Central Register of Establishments Section of the department. Records kept in the Register is updated on a quarterly basis and information for the fourth quarter of 1995 is now available.