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Manufacturers' orders-on-hand refer to orders and parts of orders received earlier by manufacturers for local production which remain unfilled as at the end of the reference month.
Orders received by traders not engaged in production are included if such orders are further placed to manufacturers for production locally. However, orders placed to manufacturing firms for production in China and other places outside Hong Kong are not included in this series of orders-on-hand statistics.
A spokesman of the department said caution should be exercised in interpreting the manufacturers' orders-on-hand figures in a single month. Instead, the trend movement of the series as displayed over a wider span of time points should be looked
at.
The survey report for December 1995, at $6 a copy, is now on sale at the Government Publications Centre, Queensway Government Offices, Low Block, ground floor, Queensway, and at the Census and Statistics Department Publications Unit, 19th Floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai.
Enquiries about the survey results may be made to the Industrial Production Statistics Section of the Census and Statistics Department on 2805 6441.
The following table shows the year-on-year percentage changes in the value of orders-on-hand in different manufacturing industries.
Percentage changes in the value
of orders-on-hand in
November 1995
December 1995
over November 1994 over December 1994
(Revised)
(Provisional)
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All industries covered in the survey
Wearing apparel
Textiles
+4
+4
- 1
- 20
- 16
-
Electronic products
+17
+14
-
Electrical products
+12
+6
+
Fabricated metal products
+9
+5
•
Plastic products
- 1
Printing and publishing
+14
+10
* Changes within +/-0.5%
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