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(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 |
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| Industry Sector/Sub-sector
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1998 |
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2002 |
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2003 |
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| Establishments |
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Persons Engaged |
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Establishments |
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Persons Engaged |
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Establishments |
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Persons Engaged |
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| Mining and quarrying |
6 |
|
402 |
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6 |
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117 |
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7 |
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180 |
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| Manufacturing |
22 414 |
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245 457 |
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19 106 |
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184 503 |
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16 272 |
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168 348 |
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| Electricity and gas |
21 |
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9 302 |
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17 |
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8 406 |
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16 |
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8 337 |
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| Wholesale, retail and import/export
trades, restaurants and hotels |
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| Wholesale |
14 800 |
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75 162 |
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15 514 |
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65 605 |
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14 529 |
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64 693 |
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| Retail |
50 003 |
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185 568 |
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58 283 |
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211 076 |
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55 114 |
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217 102 |
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| Import and export trades |
85 852 |
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452 539 |
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103 383 |
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499 735 |
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96 834 |
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490 700 |
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| Restaurants |
8 582 |
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171 541 |
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10 856 |
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180 547 |
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10 574 |
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177 164 |
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Hotels and boarding houses
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806 |
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28 260 |
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736 |
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25 994 |
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696 |
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24 201 |
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| Transport, storage and communications |
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| Transport and storage |
8 311 |
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136 094 |
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9 860 |
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144 552 |
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9 408 |
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142 854 |
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| Communications |
903 |
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32 525 |
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1 223 |
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31 141 |
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1 139 |
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31 451 |
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| Financing, insurance, real estate
and business services |
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| Financing and insurance |
12 861 |
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154 153 |
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16 056 |
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152 081 |
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14 703 |
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147 729 |
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| Real estate |
11 217 |
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77 795 |
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10 435 |
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87 234 |
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8 645 |
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85 946 |
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| Business services |
19 992 |
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158 506 |
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29 952 |
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201 990 |
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27 327 |
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190 158 |
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| Community, social and personal
services |
25 047 |
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326 395 |
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33 968 |
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402 565 |
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32 734 |
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416 508 |
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| All industry sectors above |
260 815 |
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2 053 699 |
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309 395 |
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2 195 546 |
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287 998 |
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2 165 371 |
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| Construction sites |
1 003 |
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72 253 |
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949 |
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66 393 |
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968 |
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62 176 |
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Notes: |
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(a) |
Figures refer to December of the year. |
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(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. |
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(c) |
Figures in this table do not cover establishments
and persons engaged in the following activities:
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(i) |
Agriculture and fishing. |
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(ii) |
Construction (other than construction
sites). |
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(iii) |
Hawkers and retail pitches (other than
market stalls). |
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(iv) |
Taxis, public lights buses, goods
vehicles, barges, lighters and stevedoring services. |
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(v) |
Public administration, religious organisations,
authors and other independents artists, domestic helpers
and miscellaneous recreational and personal services. |
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(d) |
Establishment in construction sites refer
to number of sites, while persons engaged refer to manual
workers only. |
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(e) |
Manual workers at construction sites include
craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workers. |
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(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. |
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Source: |
Employment Statistics Section, Census and Statistics
Department.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 5076) |
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