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Table 18

(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,

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1999

2003

2004

Persons

Establishments

6

23 553

Engaged Establishments

353

244 720

Persons Engaged

Establishments

Persons Engaged

7

21

8 606

16 272

16

180 168 348 8 337

6

134

15 748 16

165 268

8 128

restaurants and hotels

Wholesale

15 906

71 819

14 529

64 693

14 897

Retail

55 008

201 421

55 114

217 102

54 736

70 818

218 443

Import and export trades

100 853

510 012

96 834

490 700

96 523

503 287

Restaurants

10 145

190 909

10 574

177 164

10 720

185 449

Hotels and boarding houses

807

28 102

696

24 201

690

25 471

Transport, storage and

communications

Transport and storage

9 182

135 850

Communications

1 208

36 146

9 408 1 139

142 854

31 451

9 195

1 035

150 622

30 646

Financing, insurance, real

estate and business services

Financing and insurance

15 191

161 537

14 703

147 729

14 585

151 454

Real estate

12 032

89 429

8 645

85 946

8 882

87 460

Business services

24 097

164 360

27 327

190 158

28 245

208 532

Community, social and

personal services

27 898

336 493

All industry sectors above

295 907

2 179 757

32 734 416 508

287 998 2 165 371

33 609

288 887

435 151

2 240 863

Construction sites

994

71 789

974

65 065

964

58 951

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)