Table 1: Business Receipts Indices for 3rd Quarter 2003
(Quarterly average of 1996 = 100)
| Index for Q3 2003# | Q3 2003 compared with Q2 2003 | ||||
| Service Industry | Points | Points | % | ||
| Wholesale / Retail | 70.8 | +5.3 | +8.1 | ||
| breakdown : | Wholesale | 56.4 | +5.2 | +10.3 | |
| Retail | 77.0* | +5.4 | +7.5 | ||
| Import / Export trade | 86.0 | +11.7 | +15.7 | ||
| Restaurants | 89.4 | +13.2 | +17.3 | ||
| Hotels | 54.5 | +30.5 | +127.4 | ||
| Transport | 122.6 | +23.3 | +23.4 | ||
| within which : | Air transport | 153.9 | +39.7 | +34.7 | |
| Land transport | 101.1 | +11.8 | +13.2 | ||
| Maritime transport | 144.0 | +14.8 | +11.5 | ||
| Storage | 49.8 | +4.3 | +9.5 | ||
| Communications | 87.7 | +0.7 | +0.9 | ||
| within which : | Telecommunications | 80.5 | +0.9 | +1.1 | |
| Banking | 107.6 | -1.4 | -1.3 | ||
| Financing (except banking) (1) | 117.2 | +20.1 | +20.6 | ||
| within which : | Financial markets and fund management services | 127.2 | +28.9 | +29.4 | |
| Insurance | 207.8 | +12.1 | +6.2 | ||
| Real estate (2) | 67.0 | +9.5 | +16.5 | ||
| Business services | 79.4 | +0.8 | +1.0 | ||
| within which : | Professional services | 88.1 | +0.5 | +0.5 | |
| Film entertainment | 119.9 | +17.7 | +17.3 | ||
| Service Domain (3) | |||||
| Tourism, convention and exhibition services (4) | 64.6 | +41.9 | +184.0 | ||
| Computer and information services | 144.2 | +7.3 | +5.3 | ||
(Quarterly average of 1996 = 100)
| Q3 2003 compared with Q3 2002 | Q1-3 2003 compared with Q1-3 2002 | ||||
| Service Industry | Points | % | Points | % | |
| Wholesale / Retail | -1.1 | -1.5 | -3.9 | -5.3 | |
| breakdown : | Wholesale | -3.0 | -5.1 | -4.4 | -7.5 | Retail | -0.3 | -0.4 | -3.7 | -4.7 |
| Import / Export trade | +5.5 | +6.8 | +3.3 | +4.7 | |
| Restaurants | -7.3 | -7.5 | -11.3 | -11.7 | |
| Hotels | -5.7 | -9.4 | -16.8 | -26.5 | |
| Transport | +0.6 | +0.5 | -1.9 | -1.7 | |
| within which : | Air transport | -2.2 | -1.4 | -7.9 | -5.5 |
| Land transport | -3.1 | -3.0 | -6.3 | -6.2 | |
| Maritime transport | +9.3 | +6.9 | +12.9 | +11.1 | |
| Storage | -1.9 | -3.7 | -3.3 | -6.6 | |
| Communications | -2.8 | -3.1 | -2.0 | -2.2 | |
| within which : | Telecommunications | -3.7 | -4.4 | -3.0 | -3.6 |
| Banking | +5.9 | +5.8 | +2.4 | +2.3 | |
| Financing (except banking) (1) | +27.6 | +30.8 | +5.6 | +5.8 | |
| within which : | Financial markets and fund management services | +37.3 | +41.5 | +9.4 | +10.0 |
| Insurance | +42.0 | +25.3 | +33.3 | +20.6 | |
| Real estate (2) | +10.2 | +17.9 | -0.1 | -0.1 | |
| Business services | +0.6 | +0.8 | -0.8 | -1.0 | |
| within which : | Professional services | +3.2 | +3.7 | +1.7 | +2.0 |
| Film entertainment | +11.8 | +10.9 | +1.5 | +1.4 | |
| Service Domain (3) | |||||
| Tourism, convention and exhibition services (4) | -2.8 | -4.2 | -16.5 | -24.5 | |
| Computer and information services | +8.4 | +6.2 | +4.7 | +3.6 | |
| Notes : | (1) | Also not including investment and holding companies. |
| (2) | Not including real estate development. | |
| (3) | Compilation method is described in detail in paragraphs 11-15 of the report "Quarterly Business Receipts Indices for Service Industries, Third Quarter 2003". | |
| (4) | Part of the data are based on the Departing Visitors Survey conducted by Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB). Figures have been revised according to the new tourism receipts data released by HKTB in November 2003. For details of HKTB's data revision, please refer to the feature article "Statistics on Inbound Tourism" in the December 2003 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics. | |
| # | Provisional figures | |
| * | Revised figure |
Last Updated : 19 December 2003