The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) published today (July 18) the July 2023 issue of the "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics" (HKMDS).
Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains three feature articles entitled "Foreign Affiliates Statistics of Hong Kong", "Hong Kong's Trade Involving Outward Processing in the Mainland of China, 2013 to 2022" and "Trend of Hourly Wage Statistics, 2011 to 2022".
"Foreign Affiliates Statistics of Hong Kong"
With globalisation of the world economy, it is popular for multinational enterprises to provide services to customers in another economy through setting up affiliated companies abroad.
In view of the importance of services supplied via this mode, C&SD has developed a statistical framework for compiling relevant statistics, known as "foreign affiliates statistics (FATS)". This feature article briefly describes the statistical system for compiling inward FATS, and presents principal inward FATS of Hong Kong for 2021. It is an update of similar articles on the same subject published in preceding years.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Trade in Services Statistics Section of the C&SD (Tel: 3903 7410; email : tis@censtatd.gov.hk).
"Hong Kong's Trade Involving Outward Processing in the Mainland of China, 2013 to 2022"
Trade of Outward Processing (OP) nature with the mainland of China (the Mainland) is mingled with other types of trade under the existing system of recording trade statistics in Hong Kong. To clearly reflect Hong Kong's trade with the Mainland, C&SD conducts a monthly survey to collect data on trade involving OP in the Mainland so as to separate OP trade from the regular trade.
This feature article describes Hong Kong's trade involving OP in the Mainland during the period from 2013 to 2022.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Electronic Trading Services and Cargo Statistics Section of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4241; email: ops@censtatd.gov.hk).
"Trend of Hourly Wage Statistics, 2011 to 2022"
In the past 12 years, the median hourly wage of Hong Kong employees increased persistently. The median hourly wage of overall employees grew by 47.6% over the period, representing an average annual growth rate of 3.6%.
This feature article analyses the level and distribution of wages of employees in Hong Kong from 2011 to 2022, including movements of wage rates by key industry section, broad occupational group and demographic characteristics of employees.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Wages and Labour Costs Statistics Section (2) of the C&SD (Tel: 2887 5230; email: aehs@censtatd.gov.hk).
Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; National Income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?pcode=B1010002&scode=460).
Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Dissemination Section (1) of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk).
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