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Activity

Wholesale trade

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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1989

Comparison of Selected Principal Statistics for all establishments in the Cholesale, Retail and Import/Export Trades, Restaurants and Botels Smotor between 1996 and 1997

Number of

Member of establishments

persons Rozagad

Number of employees

Compensation of employees

Operating expenses

Purchases of goods for sale

Changes in stocks

Sales and

other receipts

Value added

5 Mn.

$ Mn.

$ Ma.

$ HA.

$ Ma,

1986 1987

14 199 14 843

62 222

45 434

2 104

3 932

Z change

67 055

+8

49 984

2 578

+10

+23

5 221

+33

57 843

73 931 +28

724 1 109 +53

65 198

4 265

83 532

5 759

+28

+35

Retail trade

1986

1987

51 359 50 943

173 943 175 744

112 803 115 250

5 274

9 576

64 936

2 095

Z changa

+Z

€ 199 +18

11 909

81 271

+24

+25

2 919 +39

82 910 103 659

10 640

+25

13 617 +28

Import/export trade

1986 1987

37 947

225 032

198 373

14 197

Z change

41 193 +9

255 715

223 191

+14

+13

18 110 +28

35 618

45 801 +29

364 801 501 060

6 135

7 215

+37

+18

429 662 589 427 +37

36 172 50 754 +40

Restaurants

1986 1987

Z change

7 113 7 463 +5

164 116 168 351

155 243 158 223

+2

6 410 7 661 +20

5 286

9 264

45

6 400

11 834

110

22 350 28 025

7910

9 987

+21

+28

+146

+25

+26

Hotels/boarding houses

1986

1 038

1987

* change

1 241 +20

27 212 29 149 +7

26 252

E 407

2 069

619

&

6 298

3 719

23 119

+7

1 717

2 569

808

16

+22

+24

+30

+88

7 756 +23

4 677

+26

Total

1986

1987

111 666 115 688

* change

+4

652 525 699 015 +7

539 104 574 768 +7

29 392 36 265 +23

56 481 71 901 +27

497 464

9 JOB

668 905 +34

Il 369 +26

605 418 812 400

+34

62 707 84 793 +35

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

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

(3) Value added is a measure of the contribution of an economic sector to Hong Kong's Gross Domestic Product, The definition can be found in the 1987 Survey of Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export Trades, 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 point.

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