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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

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Industry Sector/Sub-sector Establishments

Mining and quarrying

Manufacturing

Electricity and gas

2000

2004

2005

Persons

Engaged Establishments

Persons Engaged

Establishments

Persons Engaged

6

21 248

19

154 226 205

8 203

6

15 748 16

134 165 268

8 128

6

128

15 198

14

167 367

8 002

Wholesale, retail and

import and export trades,

restaurants and hotels

Wholesale

14 935

67 627

14 897

70 818

15 068

Retail

55 970

215 037

54 736

218 443

55 672

69 164

221 927

Import and export trade

101 624

509 375

96 523

503 287

97 186

510 372

Restaurants

10 183

187 772

10 720

185 449

11 423

193 901

Hotels and boarding houses

774

29 283

690

25 471

717

28 376

Transport, storage and

communications

Transport and storage

9 202

Communications

1 209

138 653

38 296

9 195 1 035

150 622

30 646

9 559

1 016

154 600

29 152

Financing, insurance, real

estate and business services

Financing and insurance

15 306

158 864

14 585

151 454

Real estate

10 800

79 958

8 882

87 460

15 167

9 941

157 601

Business services

25 824

195 283

28 245

208 532

29 347

95 895 210 931

Community, social and

personal services

29 031

354 537

All industry sectors above

296 131

2 209 247

33 609 435 151

288 887 2 240 863

35 067

446 800

295 381

2 294 216

Construction sites

978

83 924

1 010

61 247 *

868

54 456

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 skilled, semi-skilled and general 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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