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A.

13

Orders-on-hand in manufacturing industries

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1987

Orders-on-hand

% increase/ decrease over

in terms of months

Industry

for December 1986

Nov. 86 Dec. 85

Wearing apparel

4.86

10

Textiles

2.90

18

Plastic products

3.57

9

Fabricated metal products

4.32

6

งด

-6

37

Electrical and electronic products

5.08

1

Others

4.43

1

All above industries

4.48

1

N

Industry/Services

Nov. 86 Dec.

B. Employment and earnings

Persons engaged at the end of December 1986

%% increase/ decrease over

Per capita earnings

% increase/ decrease over

Nov. 86 Dec. 85

as in December 1986

85

(HK$)

Manufacturing

*

3 786

13

14

Food and drinks

1

5

4 685

21

14

Wearing apparel

-9

3 362

14

18

Textiles

2

4 176

21

15

Plastic products

-1

-2

3 078

-1

13

Fabricated metal

1

3 140

3

-1

products

Electrical and

-2

5

3 505

13

14

electronic products

Others

3

4 955

11

ON

9

Construction**

IN

2

5 113

Services

NI

2

8 409

Banks

6

9 135

Hotels

-2

5 122

Public utilities

8 033

Others

Changes within ±0.5%

4

9 582

www & N

11

14

2

37

24

8

an

9

Persona engaged cover company employees only; site workers employed by labour-only sub-contractors not included.

Note: Unlike "orders-on-hand" and "per capita earnings" which are average figures,

the total no. of persons engaged by the firms surveyed is not meaningful information on its own because this is a panel survey and is therefore not shown,