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Table 5

(Chapter 3: The Economy)

Business Receipts Indices

(Quarterly average of 1996=100)

APPENDICES

1998

2002

2003

Service industry

Wholesale/Retail

84.5

71.9

70.9

(-18.6)

(-5.5)

(-1.4)

Import/Export trade

94.6

80.5

85.7

(-14.6)

(+1.8)

Restaurants

102.7

96.7

(-4.6)

(-4.5)

(+6.5)

89.8 (-7.1)

Hotels

58.8

60.1

(-24.9)

(-2.5)

Transport(1)

96.0

121.9

54.4 (-9.5)

122.3

(-10.2)

(+6.1)

Storage

96.8

51.7

(-4.8)

(-20.4)

Communications

117.7

90.4

(+0.3) 49.8

(-3.7) 87.7

(-6.1)

(-1.4)

(-3.1)

Banking

94.5

101.7

107.6

(-13.1)

(-4.2)

(+5.8)

Financing (except banking)(2)

86.3

89.6

117.3

(-47.1)

(-6.9)

Insurance

109.4

165.9

(-3.9)

(+9.8)

(+30.9) 208.0 (+25.4)

Real estate (3)

80.9

56.8

67.2

(-24.8)

(-8.4)

(+18.3)

Business services

102.1

78.8

79.4

(-8.7)

(-5.0)

(+0.8)

Film entertainment

111.2

108.1

121.2

(-1.6)

(-18.9)

(+12.1)

Service domain (4)

services (5)

Computer and information services

Tourism, convention and exhibition

58.3

67.5*

(-20.9)

(+10.8)*

64.6# (-4.2)#

109.5 (4.1)

135.8 (+6.9)

143.9

(+6.0)

Notes: Figures refer to the third quarter of the year. Figures in brackets refer to percentage changes over the same period of the preceding year.

(1) Including business receipts from the Airport Authority as from the third quarter of 1998.

(2) Not including investment and holding companies.

(3) Not including real estate development.

(4) A service domain differs from a service industry in that a domain comprises those economic activities straddling different industries but are somehow related to a common purpose. Tourism is a good example. It includes all activities of hotels and travel agents; and some (those involving visitors as customers) but not all of the activities of restaurants, retailers and transport operators.

(5) Part of the data is obtained from the Hong Kong Tourism Board and figures have been revised to incorporate the new data on destination consumption expenditure of incoming visitors and travellers released by the Hong Kong Tourism Board in November 2003. For details, please refer to the feature article 'Statistics on Inbound Tourism' in the December 2003 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of

Statistics.

Source: Business Services Statistics Sections. Census and Statistics Department.

(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2802 1269)