The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the third quarter of 2016. Survey coverage for this quarter comprises Manufacturing; Hotels; Restaurants; Insurance; Financial Intermediation Activities; Electricity, Gas & Water Supply; Child-care and Elderly Care. This survey excludes the self-employed, as well as insurance agents and brokers not directly employed by insurance companies. At the end of the third quarter of 2016, Hotels had 54,600 full-time employees, up by 8.9% year-on-year; average earnings (excluding bonuses) of full-time employees in September rose by 2.1% to MOP16,810. Restaurants had 25,181 full-time employees, down by 9.1% year-on-year, with the average earnings rising by 1.2% to MOP9,310. Manufacturing had 9,922 full-time employees, an increase of 7.5% year-on-year; average earnings in September rose by 5.0% to MOP10,270. Electricity, Gas & Water Supply had 1,101 full-time employees, an increase of 2.3% from a year earlier; average earnings increased by 4.3% to MOP30,260. Insurance had 544 full-time employees, up by 7.5% year-on-year; average earnings in September rose by 4.1% to MOP25,400. Financial Intermediation Activities had 399 full-time employees, an increase of 2.6% year-on-year, with the average earnings falling by 1.5% to MOP13,970. Child-care and Elderly Care had 1,266 and 674 full-time employees, up by 10.0% and 1.8% respectively year-on-year; average earnings in September increased by 10.0% and 12.4% respectively to MOP13,910 and MOP13,850. At the end of the third quarter, job vacancies in Hotels (1,869) rose by 245 year-on-year, while those in Manufacturing (879) and Restaurants (2,141) fell by 142 and 51 respectively. About 70.5% of the vacancies in Hotels and 68.3% of those in Manufacturing merely required junior secondary education or lower. All of the vacancies in Financial Intermediation Activities required knowledge of Mandarin; meanwhile, 58.7% and 23.9% of the vacancies in Restaurants required knowledge of Mandarin and English respectively. In the third quarter, the employee recruitment rate (7.2%) and the employee turnover rate (5.1%) in Hotels fell by 1.1 and 0.1 percentage points respectively year-on-year, while the job vacancy rate (3.3%) rose slightly by 0.2 percentage points, indicating that the manpower situation in the industry was relatively stable. In Restaurants, the employee recruitment rate (10.1%) increased by 3.1 percentage points year-on-year, while both the job vacancy rate (7.8%) and employee turnover rate (7.1%) increased by 0.5 percentage points, implying that there were still vacancies available in Restaurants. In the third quarter, a total of 143,222 employee participants from the surveyed industries attended training courses provided by the establishment (including courses organized by the establishment or in conjunction with other institutions, and those sponsored by the employer), up by 49.6% year-on-year. Hotels had 139,155 participants in vocational training, with the majority attending courses in Services (54.1%) and Business & Administration (34.9%); besides, 99.8% of the participants attended courses during office hours. Meanwhile, over 60% of the participants from most of the industries attended courses paid by the establishment, while the corresponding rate in Child-care was 37.9%.
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