Table 18
(Chapter 6: Employment)
Number of Establishments and Persons Engaged (other than those in the Civil Service) by Industry, and Number of Construction Sites and Manual Workers at Construction Sites
Appendices ❘ 471
Industry
Mining and quarrying
2004
No. of
No. of
establishments
persons engaged establishments
2008
No. of
2009
No. of
persons engaged establishments
No. of
No. of
persons engaged
6
134
4
98
3
87
Manufacturing
Electricity, gas and
waste management Import/export, wholesale
and retail trades
14 277
147 290
13 048
130 602
12 924
124 907
286
10 451
293
10 657
312
10 870
165 133
787 796
165 564
813 476
171 324
802 333
Import and export trade
96 379
502 270
95 174
512 249
97 253
498 545
Wholesale
14 824
70 094
14 401
64 317
14 686
Retail
53 930
215 432
55 989
236 910
59 385
64 006
239 782
Accommodation and food
services
12 266
213 043
13 504
240 719
14 679
247 045
Accommodation services
690
25 471
855
32 508
899
Food and beverage services
11 576
187 572
12 649
208 211
13 780
31 859
215 186
Transportation, storage,
postal and courier services
7 712
142 648
7 667
155 838
8 805
159 297
Information and
communications
8 274
83 367
8 479
87 717
9 026
87 847
Financing and insurance
14 530
151 280
16 211
181 188
17 574
185 614
Real estate
8 949
87 828
10 845
104 931
11 992
108 410
Professional and business
services
28 532
259 498
31 555
288 237
34 420
Social and personal services
28 922
357 528
33 232
405 960
35 953
302 352
422 734
All industries above
288 887 2 240 863
300 402
2 419 423
317 012
2 451 496
Construction sites
1 010
61 247
986
49 448
992
53 154
Notes: (1) Figures refer to the end of December of the year.
(2) 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.
(3) Figures for 2009 are compiled based on the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification Version 2.0 and the series has
been backcasted to 2004.
(4) Figures in this table do not cover establishments and persons engaged in the following activities:
(i) Agriculture, forestry and fishing (entire industry section).
(ii) Construction (other than construction sites).
(iii) Hawkers and retail pitches (other than market stalls).
(iv) Taxis, public light buses, and part of goods vehicles and inland freight water transport.
(v) Monetary authorities and self-employed insurance agents with no business registration.
(vi) Renting and leasing of recreational and sports goods.
(vii) Public administration (entire industry section).
(viii) Work activities within domestic households; activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies; and religious
organisations, authors and other independent artists, and some social and personal services.
(5) For construction sites, establishments refer to number of sites while persons engaged refer to manual workers only. (6) Manual workers at construction sites include skilled, semi-skilled and general workers.
Source: Employment Statistics Section, Census and Statistics Department.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 5076)
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