XN000022-1973-07-23 — Page 3

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Monday, July 23, 1973

The pattern of geographic concentration was not uniform in respect

of establishments, employment, floor area nor sales, the report states.

Establishments were concentrated in Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok,

Cheung Sha Wan, and San Po Kong; employment was concentrated in Cheung Sha

Wan, San Po Kong and Kwun Tong; and sales were concentrated in Cheung Sha

Wan, Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan.

It says that in terms of sales, over 80 per cent of the total

(14,597 million) together with a corresponding 66 per cent of total employment

(443,983) was concentrated in 11 per cent (2,888) of the 26,149 establishments.

Each of these 2,888 establishments sold $1 million or more worth of goods

and services.

On the export side, the 1971 Census of Manufacturing Establishments.

reveals that only 36.3 per cent of all establishments produced for export,

but they employed 76.3 per cent of the total employed and sold 81 per cent of

total sales. Establishments exporting over $1 million dominated the rest.

A spokesman for the Census and Statistics Department said today the

primary object of the census was to prepare a list of establishments analysed

by size, industry and location which would serve as the basis for the forthcoming

Census of Industrial Production relating to 1973.

Information was collected on the type of premises; number and sex of

operatives and other employees;

shifts worked; floor area used for manufacturing

whether power machinery was used; and

processes and for other purposes;

value of sales and work done, broken-down into exports and local sales,

principal products sold and their relationship to total sales,

/The report