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APPENDICES

APPENDIX 18

(Chapter 8: Employment)

Number of Establishments and Employment in Principal Manufacturing Industry Groups

No. of establishments (1)

Industry group (2)(3)

Textiles and clothing

Sep 1990 Sep 1991 Sep 1992

No. of persons engaged (1) Sep 1990 Sep 1991 Sep 1992

13 527

12 391

10 262

319 917

286 278

239 947

Electronics (4)

1815

1 635

1 446

85 169

71 466

60 653

Watches and clocks (4)

1 784

1 706

1 524

27 960

23 935

18 995

Plastics (4)

4 976

4 377

4 085

51 315

41 522

35 347

Jewellery

1 496

1 522

1 387

17 426

16 204

13 821

Fabricated metal products (4)

6 447

6 092

5 621

50 784

46 000

39 881

Toys and dolls (4)

1 662

1 449

1 383

24 581

18 836

15 617

Electrical appliances

542

470

497

16 985

14 529

12 500

Total of the above groups (4)

29 944

27 554

24 253

554 713

486 411

410 071

(as a % of the corresponding figure of the whole manufacturing sector)

(61%)

(60%)

(58%)

(76%)

(74%)

(72%)

Notes:

(1) Up to 4th quarter 1990, figures are analysed by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC). As from March 1991, the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification (HSIC) is adopted for the classification of economic activities in place of ISIC. Figures from 1st quarter 1991 onwards are therefore available only in HSIC and are not strictly comparable to those in the past series which are in ISIC. To facilitate comparison over time, figures for 1990 are adjusted to conform to the classification of HSIC and presented in this table.

(2) For a breakdown of the number of establishments and employment in manufacturing industry by the HSIC, the table in Appendix 17 should be referred to. The statistics presented here are figures for industry groups in the manufacturing sector having more significant domestic export value but they cannot be readily derived from Appendix 17 because some of them may cut across more than one Major Group/Group in the HSIC.

(3) The coverage of the industry groups in the above table is given below:

(i) The industry group 'textile and clothing' corresponds to the major groups 'wearing apparel except footwear' and ‘textiles' in

Appendix 17.

(ii) The industry group 'electronics' includes 'office, accounting and computing machinery', 'radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus', 'electronic parts and components", "electronic toys', 'electronic industrial apparatus', 'watches and clocks, electronic' and ‘electronic products, n.e.c.'.

(iii) The industry group 'watches and clocks' includes 'watches and clocks, mechanical”; ‘watches and clocks, electronic'; 'metal wrist

watchbands' and 'cases and parts for watches and clocks, n.e.c."

(iv) The industry group 'plastics' corresponds to the major group 'plastics products' in Appendix 17.

(v) The industry group 'electrical appliances' includes 'electrical appliances and houseware', 'dry batteries (excl. lead accumulators)',

'electric and torch bulbs and tubes' and 'electrical products and accessories, n.e.c.”.

(vi) The industry group ‘jewellery' includes 'jewellery' and 'artificial pearls and imitation jewellery".

(vii) The industry group 'toys and dolls' includes ‘wooden toys', 'rubber toys', 'plastic toys', 'metal toys', 'electronic toys' and 'toys,

n.e.c.'.

(viii) The industry group 'fabricated metal products' corresponds to the major group 'fabricated metal products, except machinery and

equipment' in Appendix 17.

(4) There is some overlapping in industrial coverage in some of the above industrial groups:

(i) 'Watches and clocks, electronic' is included in both ‘electronics' and 'watches and clocks' groups.

(ii) 'Metal wrist watchbands' is included in both 'fabricated metal products' and 'watches and clocks' groups.

(iii) 'Electronic toys' is included in both 'electronics' and 'toys and dolls' groups.

(iv) 'Plastic toys' is included in both 'plastics' and 'toys and dolls' groups.

(v) 'Metal toys' is included in both "fabricated metal products' and 'toys and dolls' groups.

However, the figures of watches and clocks, electronic', 'metal wrist watchbands', 'electronic toys', 'plastic toys' and 'metal toys' are counted only once in the 'total of the above groups'.

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