Table 5

(Chapter 3: The Economy)
Business Receipts Indices
(Quarterly average of 1996=100)
  1997   2001   2002  
             
Service industry            
  Wholesale/Retail 103.8   76.1   71.9  
    (+3.3)   (–5.0)   (–5.5)  
  Import/Export trade 110.7   79.1   80.5  
    (+5.1)   (–18.5)   (+1.8)  
  Restaurants 107.7   101.2   96.7  
  (+6.1)   (–4.5)   (–4.5)  
  Hotels 78.2   61.7   60.1  
    (–14.7)   (–10.5)   (–2.5)  
  Transport(1) 106.9   114.9   121.9  
    (+1.3)   (–8.2)   (+6.1)  
  Storage 101.6   65.0   51.7  
    (+0.2)   (–16.8)   (–20.4)  
  Communications 125.4   91.7   90.4  
    (+21.0)   (–16.0)   (–1.4)  
  Banking 108.8   106.1   101.7  
    (+10.1)   (+3.6)   (–4.2)  
  Financing (except banking)(2) 162.9   96.3   89.6  
    (+68.3)   (–22.6)   (–6.9)  
  Insurance 113.8   151.1   165.9  
    (+11.7)   (+13.9)   (+9.8)  
  Real estate(3) 107.6   62.0   56.8  
    (+12.3)   (–18.1)   (–8.4)  
  Business services 111.9   83.0   78.8  
    (+11.1)   (–12.8)   (–5.0)  
  Film entertainment 113.0   133.3   108.1  
    (+5.5)   (+18.1)   (–18.9)  
Service domain(4)            
  Tourism, convention and exhibition 76.6   66.6   72.0  
    services(5) (–20.8)   (–8.0)   (+8.2)  
  Computer and information services 114.2   127.1   135.8  
    (+13.5)   (–19.6)   (+6.9)  
Notes: Figures refer to the third quarter of the year. Figures in brackets refer to percentage changes over the same period of the preceding year.
  (1) Including business receipts from the Airport Authority as from the third quarter of 1998.
  (2) Not including investment and holding companies.
  (3) Not including real estate development.
  (4) A service domain differs from a service industry in that a domain comprises those parts of economic activities straddling different industries but somehow related to a common purpose. Tourism is a good example. It includes all activities of travel agents; and some (those involving visitors as customers) but not all of the activities of restaurants, retailers and transport operators.
  (5) Part of the data comes from the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
Source: Distribution and Services Statistics Section (2)A, Census and Statistics Department.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2802 1269)