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Comparison of Selected Principal Statistics for all establishments in

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1988

the Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export Trades, Restaurants and Motels Sector between 1985 and 1986

Number of

Activity

Number of establishment.

persona engaged

Rumber of Compensation Operating employees of employees_ expenses

Purchases of goods for sale

Changes in stocka

Sales and

other receipte

Value added

$ 1.

$ Ho.

$ Hm.

$ No.

$ Mn

$ MD,

Wholesale trade

1985 1986

13 446

61 149

46 179

1 938

3 072

46 723

379

52 996

3 623

I change

14 199 +6

62 222 +2

45 434

2 104

3 932

57 843

724

65 198

4 265

-1

+28

+24

+91

+23

+18

Retail trade

1985

1986

AB 030 51 369

I change

+7

168 496 173 943

+3

109 609

4683

8 170

57 285

1 044

73 131

112 803

+3

3 274 +13

9576 +17

64 936

+13

2 -095 +101

82 910 +11

B BRO 10 640 +20

Import/export trade

1985 1986

33 881

% change

37 947 +12

205 780

225 032 +9

183 169 198 373 +8

11 856 14 197 +20

29 771

35 618 +20

293 767 364 801

1 282

6 135

349 765 429 662

28 308

36 172

+24

+379

+23

+28

Restaurante

1985

1986

6 620

I change

7 113 +7

157 453

164 116

150 270 155 243

5 867 6 410

+9

5 100 5 286 +4

A 592

5

9 264

45

20 585

22 350

6.946

+8

+851

+9

7 910 +14

Hotels/boarding houses

1985

942

24 372

23 690

1 238

1 001

514

5 299

1986

1 038

27 212

I change

+10

+12

26 252

+1

1 407 +14

2.069

619

+10

+21

+233

6 298

+19

3 079

3 719

+21

Total

1985

102 919

1986

111 666

617 250 652 525

2 change

+8

+6

512 917 538 104 +5

25 601 29 392

+15

47 994 56 481 +18

406 881 497 464 +22

2 712

9 008 +232

501 776 606 418 +21

50 836 62 707 +23

Notes: (1) Individual items may not add up to total due to rounding.

(2) Figures denoting changes are derived from unrounded figures.

(3) Value added in a measure of the contribution of an economic sector to Hong Kong's

Grone Domestic Product, The definition can be found in the "1986 Survey of Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export Traden, Restaurants and Hotels" report.

(4) Figures on number of persons engaged cover persons engaged by establishments which operated for the

whole or part of the reference year and therefore are not Figures referring to a particular time polet.

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