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Table 18

APPENDICES

(Chapter 6: Employment)

Number of Establishments and Persons Engaged (other than those in the Civil Service) by Industry Sector, and Number of Construction Sites and Manual Workers at Construction Sites

Industry Sector/Sub-sector

Mining and quarrying

Manufacturing

Electricity and gas

Wholesale, retail and import/export trades,

restaurants and hotels

1997

2001

2002

Establishments

Persons Engaged

Establishments

Persons Engaged

Establishments

Persons Engaged

5

25 724

423

288 887

7

179

6

117

25

9 678

19 977

20

202 984

8 096

19 106

17

184 503

8 406

Wholesale

15 517

72 194

14 601

66 082

15 514

65 605

Retail

52 159

206 172

57 681

210 228

58 283

211 076

Import and export trades

95 970

510 571

98 339

500 719

103 383

499 735

Restaurants

8 893

178 308

10 685

193 127

10 856

180 547

Hotels and boarding houses

821

35 827

695

26 815

736

25.994

Transport, storage and communications

Transport and storage

8 580

141 539

9 317

143 594

Communications

971

36 565

1 249

38 104

9 860

1 223

144 552

31 141

Financing, insurance, real estate and

business services

Financing and insurance

12 992

162 389

Real estate

13 091

82 696

15 481

9.791

161 069

16 056

80 658

10 435

Business services

21 500

165 894

25 918

192 147

Community, social and personal services

25 882

317 683

31 255

385 053

All industry sectors above

282 130

2 208 826

295 016

2 208 855

29.952

33 968

309 395

152 081

87 234

201 990

402 565

2 195 546

Construction sites

1 105

83 251

931

76 601

949

66 393

Notes: (a) Figures refer to December of the year.

(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 table do not cover establishments and persons engaged in the following activities:

(i) Agriculture and fishing.

(ii) Construction (other than construction sites).

(iii) Hawkers and retail pitches (other than market stalls).

(iv) Taxis, public lights buses, goods vehicles, barges, lighters and stevedoring services.

(v) Public administration, religious organizations, authors and other independents artists, domestic helpers and miscellaneous

recreational and personal services.

(d) Establishment in construction sites refer to number of sites, while persons engaged refer to manual workers only.

(e) Manual workers at construction sites include craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workers.

(f) Starting from March 2002 round of Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies, the survey coverage has been expanded to include five more industries in the community, social and personal services sector. They are veterinary services, billiard centres, bowling centres, electronic game centres and funeral services.

Source: Employment Statistics Section, Census and Statistics Department.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 5076)