Appendix 6 Table 18 (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           2000   2004   2005     Industry Sector/Sub-sector Establishments   Persons Engaged   Establishments   Persons Engaged   Establishments   Persons Engaged Mining and quarrying 6   154   6   134   6   128 Manufacturing 21 248   226 205   15 748   165 268   15 198   167 367 Electricity and gas 19   8 203   16   8 128   14   8 002 Wholesale, retail and                         import and export trades,                         restaurants and hotels                         Wholesale 14 935   67 627   14 897   70 818   15 068   69 164   Retail 55 970   215 037   54 736   218 443   55 672   221 927   Import and export trades 101 624   509 375   96 523   503 287   97 186   510 372   Restaurants 10 183   187 772   10 720   185 449   11 423   193 901   Hotels and boarding   houses 774   29 283   690   25 471   717   28 376 Transport, storage and                         communications                         Transport and storage 9 202   138 653   9 195   150 622   9 559   154 600   Communications 1 209   38 296   1 035   30 646   1 016   29 152 Financing, insurance, real                         estate and business services                         Financing and insurance 15 306   158 864   14 585   151 454   15 167   157 601   Real estate 10 800   79 958   8 882   87 460   9 941   95 895   Business services 25 824   195 283   28 245   208 532   29 347   210 931 Community, social and                         personal services 29 031   354 537   33 609   435 151   35 067   446 800                     All industry sectors above 296 131   2 209 247   288 887   2 240 863   295 381   2 294 216                     Construction sites 978   83 924   1 010 * 61 247 * 868   54 456     Notes: (a) Figures refer to December of the year. (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. (c) Figures in this table do not cover establishments and persons engaged in the following activities:   (i) Agriculture and fishing.   (ii) Construction (other than construction sites).   (iii) Hawkers and retail pitches (other than market stalls).   (iv) Taxis, public lights buses, goods vehicles, barges, lighters and stevedoring services.   (v) Public administration, religious organisations, authors and other independents artists, domestic helpers and miscellaneous recreational and personal services. (d) Establishment in construction sites refer to number of sites, while persons engaged refer to manual workers only. (e) Manual workers at construction sites include skilled, semi-skilled and general workers. (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. Source: Employment Statistics Section, Census and Statistics Department. (Enquiry Telephone No.: 2582 5076)