The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the first 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 first quarter of 2016, Hotels had 49,606 full-time employees, up by 8.3% year-on-year; average earnings (excluding bonuses) of full-time employees in March fell by 0.5% to MOP16,350. Restaurants had 26,019 full-time employees, up by 3.0% year-on-year, with the average earnings rising by 3.2% to MOP9,130. Manufacturing had 9,074 full-time employees, a decrease of 3.5% year-on-year; average earnings in March fell by 3.1% year-on-year to MOP10,290. Electricity, Gas & Water Supply had 1,078 full-time employees, similar to a year earlier, and their average earnings increased by 1.6% to MOP28,970. Insurance had 513 full-time employees, up by 4.7% year-on-year; average earnings in March fell by 2.1% to MOP24,690. Financial Intermediation Activities had 397 full-time employees, an increase of 5.6% year-on-year, with the average earnings rising by 4.3% to MOP13,590. Child-care and Elderly Care had 1,197 and 661 full-time employees, up by 9.6% and 3.1% respectively year-on-year; average earnings in March increased by 8.4% and 13.9% respectively to MOP13,400 and MOP13,750. At the end of the first quarter, job vacancies in Restaurants (2,785) rose by 404 year-on-year, while those in Manufacturing (1,399) and Hotels (1,284) fell by 215 and 167 respectively. About 69.6% of the vacancies in Manufacturing and 65.0% of those in Restaurants merely required junior secondary education or lower. All of the vacancies in Financial Intermediation Activities required knowledge of Mandarin; meanwhile, 61.8% and 44.9% of the vacancies in Hotels required knowledge of Mandarin and English respectively. In the first quarter, the employee turnover rate (3.9%), the employee recruitment rate (3.4%) and the job vacancy rate (2.5%) in Hotels fell by 0.3, 0.7 and 0.6 percentage points respectively year-on-year, indicating that the manpower situation in the industry was relatively stable. In Restaurants, the job vacancy rate (9.7%) increased by 1.1 percentage points year-on-year, while the employee recruitment rate (6.5%) and the employee turnover rate (5.5%) were similar to a year earlier, implying that there were still vacancies available in Restaurants. In the first quarter, a total of 90,982 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 substantially by 330% year-on-year. Hotels had 87,718 participants in vocational training, with the majority attending courses in Business & Administration (44.5%) and Services (42.9%); besides, 99.7% of the participants attended courses during office hours. Meanwhile, over 70% of the participants from most of the industries attended courses paid by the establishment, while the corresponding rate in Electricity, Gas & Water Supply and Child-care was 60.0% and 48.9% respectively.
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