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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

2001

2005

2006

Industry Sector/Sub-sector Establishments

Mining and quarrying

7

Manufacturing

19 977

Electricity and gas

20

Persons Engaged

179

202 984

8 096

Establishments

Persons Engaged

Establishments

Persons Engaged

6

15 198

14

128

167 367

8 002

6

116

14 937

15

159 285

7 926

Wholesale, retail and

import and export trades,

restaurants and hotels

Wholesale

14 601

66 082

15 068

69 164

14 891

67 392

Retail

57 681

210 228

55 672

221 927

57 045

229 395

Import and export trade

98 339

500 719

97 186

510 372

99 415

519 204

Restaurants

10 685

193 127

11 423

193 901

11 827

201 250

Hotels and boarding houses

695

26 815

717

28 376

778

30 506

Transport, storage and

communications

Transport and storage

9 317

Communications

1 249

143 594

38 104

9 559

1 016

154 600

29 152

9 673

957

157 503

29 381

Financing, insurance, real

estate and business services

Financing and insurance

15 481

161 069

15 167

157 601

15 910

Real estate

9 791

80 658

9 941

95 895

10 265

Business services

25 918

192 147

29 347

210 931

31 322

167 712

99 001

224 841

Community, social and

personal services

31 255

385 053

All industry sectors above

295 016

2 208 855

35 067

295 381

446 800

2 294 216

36 661

303 702

460 763

2 354 275

Construction sites

931

76 601

868

54 456

911

51 004

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)