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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.

1998

2002

2003

Establishments

Persons Engaged

Establishments

Persons Engaged

Establishments

Persons Engaged

6

402

117

7

180

22 414

245 457

21

9 302

19 106

17

184 503

8 406

16 272

16

168 348

8 337

restaurants and hotels

Wholesale

14.800

75 162

15 514

65 605

14 529

64 693

Retail

50 003

185 568

58 283

211 076

55 114

217 102

Import and export trades

85 852

452 539

103 383

499 735

96 834

490 700

Restaurants

8 582

171 541

10 856

180 547

10 574

177 164

Hotels and boarding houses

806

28 260

736

25 994

696

24 201

Transport, storage and communications

Transport and storage

8311

136 094

9.860

144 552

Communications

903

32 525

| 223

31 141

9 408

1 139

142 854

31 451

Financing, insurance, real estate and

business services

Financing and insurance

12 861

154 153

16 056

152 081

14 703

147 729

Real estate

11 217

77 795

10 435

87 234

8 645

85 946

Business services

19 992

158 506

29 952

201 990

27 327

Community, social and personal services

25 047

326 395

33 968

402 565

32 734

190 158

416 508

All industry sectors above

260 815

2 053 699

309 395

2 195 546

287 998

2 165 371

Construction sites

1 003

72 253

949

66.393

968

62 176

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

(b) Figures 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 organisations, 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)

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