The survey coverage for the first quarter of 2005 includes Manufacturing, Electricity, gas & water supply, Hotels & restaurants; and Financial intermediation, but excludes all own-account workers and intermediary not directly employed by insurance companies. Information on the number of employees, vacancies and earnings was extrapolated based on the results from 636 statistical units successfully interviewed. The results are as follows. At the end of the first quarter of 2005, the Manufacturing sector had 33,838 paid employees, with 24,673 working in the manufacture of wearing apparel. Compared with the same period of 2004, number of paid employees in the Manufacturing sector decreased 2.7%. In March 2005, average monthly earnings (excluding year-end bonuses, holiday allowances, profit-sharing bonuses and other similar bonuses) for full time employees in the Manufacturing sector was MOP 4,281, up 2.8% over the same period of 2004. Electricity, gas & water supply sector had 1,026 paid employees, down 2.9% over the first quarter of 2004. Average monthly earnings for employees in this sector rose slightly by 0.3% over March 2004 to MOP 18,425. Hotels & restaurants sector had 21,368 paid employees, with 12,380 working in the restaurant industry. Compared with the first quarter of 2004, number of paid employees in Hotels & restaurants sector surged 18.6%; average monthly earnings increased 4.7% to MOP 5,593. Financial intermediation sector had 4,224 paid employees, with 3,625 working in banking. Compared with the first quarter of 2004, number of paid employees in the Financial intermediation sector increased 3.9%; average monthly earnings went up 3.0% to MOP 13,189. At the end of March 2005, the Manufacturing sector had 6,694 vacancies, of which 5,281 were in the manufacture of wearing apparel. Hotels & restaurants sector had 2,796 vacancies, Financial intermediation sector and Electricity, gas & water supply sector had 151 and 24 vacant posts respectively. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, over 90% of the vacant posts in the Manufacturing sector required working experience. Over 90% of the vacant posts in Electricity, gas & water supply sector and Financial intermediation sector required senior secondary or higher in educational attainment. Besides Cantonese, Mandarin was the more preferable language skill in both Hotels & restaurants (40.4%) and Financial intermediation (82.3%) sectors, while all vacancies in Electricity, gas & water supply sector required English.
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