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APPENDICES
Food product, beverage and tobacco manufactures
APPENDIX 22
(Chapter 8: Employment)
Number of Persons Engaged (other than those in the Civil Service) by Selected Major Industry Group and Number of Manual Workers at Construction Sites
Industry Sector/Major Industry Group
Mining and quarrying
Manufacturing
Wearing apparel
1994
1995
1996
488 438 382
491
486
386 106
23 785
22 306
327 464 22 434
101 544
82 432
66 023
Leather and leather products and footwear
2 924
2 223
1 442
Textiles
71 352
57 499
49 351
Wood and cork products, furniture and fixtures
3 752
3 208
2 332
Paper and paper products
8 156
7 682
6 886
Printing, publishing and allied industries
42 621
44 790
44 436
Chemicals and chemical products, products of petroleum and coal
7 434
6 962
6 294
Rubber and plastic products
20 464
16 459
13 345
Non-metallic mineral products
3 446
3 340
3 111
Basic metal
2003
1 822
1 816
Fabricated metal products
29 264
25 082
20 550
Office, accounting and computing machines
12 145
10 518
6 323
Radio, television and communication equipment
4 986
3.970
1 903
Other machinery and equipment
Electronic parts and components
Electrical appliances and houseware
Transport equipment
Professional instrument and optical goods
Other manufacturing industries
Electricity and gas
Wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels
18 327
19 462
16 074
3 878
3 352
2 324
31 794
29 383
24 842
12 525
10 824
9 663
17 223
15 921
12 165
20 759
18 871
11 789
11 745
16 150 11.390
1 051 193
1 030 871
1 046 561
Wholesale
Retail
Import/Export
Restaurants
79 843
79 813
80 214
207 772
196 072
207 169
532 913
535 793
535 553
191 870
182 057
186 970
Hotels and boarding houses
Transport, storage and communications
38 795
37 136
36 655
166 029
169 954
179 755
Land passenger transport
25 080
26 725
27 456
Water and air transport
34 906
34 971
Supporting services to transport
19 694
21 298
Services incidental to transport
45 414
45 512
Storage
6 300
5 942
36 338 21.700 50 013
5917
Communications
34 635
35 506
38 331
Financing, insurance, real estate and business services
361 072
375 366
391 151
Financial institutions
118 712
119 730
120 092
Stock, commodity and bullion brokers
12 606
13 274
15 248
Insurance
20 239
22 027
27 561
Real estate
66 181
72 110
75 841
Business services
Community, social and personal services
Sanitary and similar services
Education and related services
Medical and health services
Other community and social services
Amusement and recreational services Personal services
Total
143 334
148 225
152 409
291 653
298 264
314 516
31 504
33 215
39 622
89 824
94 428
93 994
53.993
57 843
61 471
28 358
28 800
31 805
32 809
33 819
55 165
50 159
36 549 51 075
2 320 606
2 272 797
2 271 323
Manual workers at construction sites
Notes: (a) Figures refer to September of the year.
60 392
65 821
76 580
(b) Data are based on the Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies and the Quarterly Employment Survey of Construction Sites
conducted by the Census and Statistics Department.
(c) Figures in this Appendix do not cover outworkers in the manufacturing sector and persons engaged in the following activities:
(i) Agriculture and fishing.
(ii) Construction (other than manual workers at sites).
(iii) Hawkers and retail pitches (other than market stalls).
(iv) Taxis, public light buses, goods vehicles, barges, lighters and stevedoring services.
(v) Veterinary services, religious organizations, authors and other independent artists, domestic helpers and miscellaneous
recreational and personal services.
(d) Unlike Chapters 7 and 8, the textiles industry in this Appendix includes ‘knit outerwear and underwear'; however, the textiles industry
quoted in Chapters 7 and 8 does not cover ‘knit outerwear and underwear' which has been included in the clothing industry. (e) Manual workers at construction sites include craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workers.
Source: Census and Statistics Department.
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