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 I 475
2005
No. of
No. of
persons
2009
No. of
2010
Industry
establishments
engaged establishments
No. of
persons engaged establishments
No. of
No. of
persons engaged
Mining and quarrying
6
Manufacturing
Electricity, gas and
13 743
277
128
148 396 9 867
3
87
3
83
12 924
312
124 907 10 870
12 441
117 590
324
11 075
waste management
Import/export, wholesale
167 266
798 058
171 324
802 333
178 243
813 230
and retail trades
Import and export trade
97 125
509 819
97 253
498 545
101 575
500 817
Wholesale
15 009
68 744
14 686
64 006
14 955
64 064
Retail
55 132
219 495
59 385
239 782
61 713
248 349
Accommodation and food
12 844
223 222
14 679
247 045
15 911
255 288
services
Accommodation services
Transportation, storage,
717
28 376
899
Food and beverage services
12 127
194 846
8 084
146 475
13 780
8 805
31 859
215 186
159 297
978
14 933
9 484
33 386
221 902
161 544
postal and courier services
Information and
communications
8 194
82 334
9 026
87 847
9 958
88 894
Financing and insurance
15 119
157 397
17 574
185 614
19 026
196 413
Real estate
10 001
96 333
11 992
108 410
12 942
112 542
Professional and business
29 675
261 445
34 420
302 352
36 899
314 344
services
Social and personal services
30 172
370 561
35 953
422 734
39 018
432 812
All industries above
295 381
2 294 216
317 012 2 451 496
334 249
2 503 815
Construction sites
868
54 456
992
53 154
1 101
55 425
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) Starting from the reference year 2009, the figures are compiled based on Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification
Version 2.0 and the series has been backcasted to 2000.
(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 and Central Register of Establishments Section, Census and Statistics Department.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 5076)
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