March 2018 issue of "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics" now available
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Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains two feature articles entitled "The Profile of the Population in One-person Households in 2016" and "Trading Firms Engaging in Sub-contract Processing Arrangement and Providing Manufacturing-related Technical Support Services".
"The Profile of the Population in One-person Households in 2016"
In tandem with the socio-economic developments in Hong Kong, there has been an increasing number of persons living alone in recent years. This feature article gives an overview of the population in one-person households and their characteristics based on results of the 2016 Population By-census.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Demographic Statistics Section, C&SD (Tel: 3903 6934; email: census@censtatd.gov.hk).
"Trading Firms Engaging in Sub-contract Processing Arrangement and Providing Manufacturing-related Technical Support Services"
Driven by the open economic policies of China, the economy of Hong Kong has been undergoing structural changes since the 1980s. Through the sub-contract processing arrangement in the mainland of China (the Mainland), Hong Kong entrepreneurs continue to operate in Hong Kong, in the form of import and export firms. These firms also provide manufacturing-related technical support services, e.g. product design, sample and mould making, and production planning, to the associated manufacturing firms in the Mainland.
Feature articles addressing this subject have been published regularly in this Digest since 1995. This feature article provides the latest information on the related development.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Distribution Services Statistics Section, C&SD (Tel: 3903 7398; email: asw@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 free of charge at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp140.jsp?productCode=B1010002).
Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Services Section of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk).
Ends/Thursday, March 15, 2018
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