24-8  Employed Persons by Industry
					(10 000 persons)
Industry	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Manufacturing	28.70	26.83	23.12	22.35	21.65
Construction	28.31	26.01	26.20	26.29	26.91
Wholesale, Retail and
Import/Export Trades,	97.81	98.50	106.35	109.40	110.80
Restaurants and Hotels
Transport, Storage and	34.24	34.27	35.46	35.64	36.84
Communications
Financing, Insurance, Real
Estate and Business Services	47.78	47.17	48.22	50.56	52.90
Community, Social and
Personal Services	82.61	84.59	85.97	87.40	89.64
Others	2.58	2.37	2.33	2.42	2.29
Total	322.03	319.74	327.65	334.08	341.02
Notes : The Population By-census conducted by the Census and Statistics Department in July to August 2006 provides a benchmark for revising the
population figures compiled since the 2001 Population Census.  In the above table, population-related figures from 2002 to 2005 have been
revised accordingly.
Figures are compiled based on the data obtained from the General Household Survey for the four quarters of the year.