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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
2006
No. of
No. of
persons
2010
No. of
2011
Industry (1)
Mining and quarrying
Manufacturing
establishments
engaged establishments
No. of
persons engaged establishments
No. of
No. of
persons engaged
6
13 649
Electricity and gas supply, and
waste management
271
116
139 547
10 259
3
83
2
71
12 441
324
117 590
11 075
12 011 326
110 379
10 616
Import/export, wholesale
170 575
811 092
178 243
813 230
180 546
814 584
and retail trades
Import and export trade
99 287
518 073
101 575
500 817
102 273
495 847
Wholesale
14 857
66 578
14 955
64 064
14 996
63 763
Retail
56 431
226 441
61 713
248 349
63 277
254 974
Accommodation (2) and food
services
13 425
233 679
15 911
255 288
16 763
266 315
Accommodation services(2) Food and beverage services
Transportation, storage,
778
30 506
978
33 386
1 006
34 982
12 647
8 021
203 173
148 862
14 933
221 902
15 757
231 333
9 484
161 544
9 769
165 474
postal and courier services
Information and
8 849
83 825
9 958
88 894
10 756
93 268
communications
Financing and insurance
15 897
167 699
19 026
196 413
20 610
207 324
Real estate
10 338
99 586
12 942
112 542
14 250
122 252
Professional and business
31 009
278 091
36 899
314 344
39 157
328 793
services
Social and personal services
31 662
381 519
39 018
432 812
41 194
441 705
All industries above
303 702 2 354 275
334 249 2 503 815
345 384 2 560 781
Construction sites(3)
911
51 004
1 101
55 425
1 172
69 395
Notes: Figures refer to the end of December of the year.
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.
(1) 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.
(2) Accommodation services sector covers hotels, guesthouses, boarding houses and other establishments providing short
term accommodation.
(3) For construction sites, establishments refer to number of sites while persons engaged refer to manual workers only.
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
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