Comparison of Selected Principal Statistics for All Establishments in
the Wholesale, Retail and Import and Export Trades, Restaurants and Hotels Sector between 1997 and 1998

Major
industry
group		 Number
of
establish-
ments		 Number
of
persons
engaged
Number
of
employees
Compensa-
tion of
employees

Operating
expenses
Cost of
goods
sold

Gross
surplus
Sales and
other
receipts

Value
added
$ Mn. $ Mn. $ Mn. $ Mn. $ Mn. $ Mn.
Wholesale
trade		 1998 20 020 69 944 51 420 7,703 10,340 150,401 4,628 173,072 13,076
1997 22 482 75 029 54 371 8,311 11,107 164,488 6,795 190,701 15,760
% change -11.0 -6.8 -5.4 -7.3 -6.9 -8.6 -31.9 -9.2 -17.0
Retail
trade		 1998 49 282 200 288 145 785 21,794 43,424 155,174 3,502 223,894 26,368
1997 53 502 244 255 170 658 22,467 51,105 193,996 15,772 283,341 38,409
% change -7.9 -18.0 -14.6 -3.0 -15.0 -20.0 -77.8 -21.0 -31.3
Import/
export
trade		 1998 89 731 475 439 433 224 103,196 184,040 1,555,131 95,550 1,937,917 206,548
1997 97 994 515 515 468 953 103,055 210,264 1,958,625 115,953 2,387,898 232,828
% change -8.4 -7.8 -7.6 +0.1 -12.5 -20.6 -17.6 -18.8 -11.3
Restaurants 1998 9 818 187 526 177 714 21,201 19,538 24,025 3,410 68,173 24,865
1997 10 201 204 088 194 522 23,077 22,313 24,218 4,427 74,035 27,641
% change -3.8 -8.1 -8.6 -8.1 -12.4 -0.8 -23.0 -7.9 -10.0
Hotels/
boarding
houses		 1998 895 28 529 27 764 5,689 7,940 1,816 205 15,649 8,442
1997 1 111 35 738 34 780 6,446 8,667 2,107 4,348 21,569 13,051
% change -19.4 -20.2 -20.2 -11.8 -8.4 -13.8 -95.3 -27.4 -35.3
Total 1998 169 747 961 727 835 908 159,583 265,282 1,886,546 107,296 2,418,707 279,299
1997 185 291 1 074 625 923 284 163,357 303,458 2,343,434 147,295 2,957,544 327,689
% change -8.4 -10.5 -9.5 -2.3 -12.6 -19.5 -27.2 -18.2 -14.8


Notes:
 		(1)
 		Figures denoting changes are derived from unrounded figures.
(2)
 		Individual items may not add up to the corresponding total due to rounding.
(3)
 		Cost of goods sold is given by deducting the value of purchases of goods for sale by changes in stocks.
(4)
 		The underlined figures were rounded up to 5.
(5)
 		Value added is a measure of the contribution of an economic sector/industry to Hong Kong's Gross Domestic Product. The definition can be found in the "Report on 1998 Annual Survey of Wholesale, Retail and Import and Export Trades, Restaurants and Hotels".

Last updated : 7 April 2000