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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

2002

2006

2007

Persons

Industry sector/sub-sector

Establishments

engaged Establishments

Persons engaged

Establishments

Persons engaged

Mining and quarrying

6

Manufacturing

Electricity and gas

19 106 17

117

184 503

8 406

6

14 937

15

116 159 285

7 926

5

102

14 838

19

156 035

7 895

Wholesale, retail and

import and export trades,

restaurants and hotels

Wholesale

15 514

65 605

14 891

67 392

14 823

Retail

58 283

211 076

57 045

229 395

57 327

67 193

236 780

Import and export trade

103 383

499 735

99 415

519 204

96 646

Restaurants

10 856

180 547

11 827

201 250

12 111

521 039 207 129

Hotels and boarding houses

736

25 994

778

30 506

817

31 724

Transport, storage and

communications

Transport and storage

9 860

Communications

1 223

144 552

31 141

9 673

957

157 503

29 381

9 642

984

162 023

29 569

Financing, insurance, real

estate and business services

Financing and insurance

16 056

152 081

15 910

167 712

15 735

179 761

Real estate

10 435

87 234

10 265

99 001

10 761

104 337

Business services

29 952

201 990

31 322

224 841

31 933

233 179

Community, social and

personal services

33 968

402 565

All industry sectors above

309 395

2 195 546

36 661

303 702 2 354 275

460 763

37 655

469 050

303 296

2 405 816

Construction sites

949

66 393

911

51 004

946

50 103

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) Self-employed insurance agents with no business registration.

(vi) 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)