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TABLE 2: QUARTERLY ANALYSIS OF LOANS FOR USE IN HONG KONG BY SECTOR MARCH 1991 # +

(HK$ma)

Har 1991

Earlier quarters

(X change to March 1991)

Dec 1990

Sep 1990

Mar 1990

Manufacturing

51,871

Transport and transport

equipment

43.543

49,315 (

41.232 (

5.2 %)

5.6 %)

49.287 ( 5.2 %)

38.971 ( 11.7 %)

48,062 ( 7.9 %)

37.149 (17.2 %)

Building, construction.

110,183

108.112 (

1.9 %)

105.088 (

8 %)

101,149 ( 8.9 %)

property development and investment

Wholesale and retail trade

73.399

Financial concerns *

Individuals:

111.575

74,641 (

104,730 [

1.7 %)

6.5 %)

70.629 ( 3.9 %)

98,988 ( 12.7 %)

65.358 (12.3 X)

90.507 (23.3 %)

to purchase flats in the Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme

15.071

13.664 ( 10.3 %)

13.899 ( 8.4 %)

12,660 ( 19.0 X

to purchase other residential property

141.648

132,166 (

7.2 %)

119.858 ( 18.2 %)

107,406 ( 31.9 X)

other purposes

Others

Total

65,271

114.673

727,234

60,896 (

104.612 (

689,368 (

7.2 )

9.6 %)

5.5 %)

60.599 ( 7.7 %)

101,968 ( 12.5 %)

659.287 ( 10.3 %)

56.828 ( 14.9 X)

99,428 ( 15.3 %)

618,547 ( 17.6 %)

# Starting from December 1988. more detailed statistics on loans to the transport sector.

to building, construction. property development and investment and to financial concerns are available. They are published in the Monthly Digest of Statistics from the January 1989 issue onwards.

As a

In December 1988, the return for reporting loans for use by sector was revised. result of this, some authorized institutions have now more properly classified their loans according to intended usage rather than the business of the loan recipients.

This excludes funds advanced to authorized institutions

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